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NASSAU, Bahamas - was the Florida International baseball player with a record 56-game winning streak with rape in the Bahamas, charged capital said Monday court officials in the Islands.
Garrett Wittels was a 17-year-old teenager accused of raping tourist on December 20, while on a visit to the islands east of Florida. The 20-year-old pitcher in the landed last season with the second longest hitting streak in NCAA Division I history, two behind the 58 game lead by Oklahoma State's Robin Ventura in 1987.
Two Wittels friends rape charges face, officials said.
Robert Rothschild, 21, of New York, was accused of having raped during Jonathan Oberti, 21, of New York, two 17-year-old girl, a rape, battery for according to the Bahamian court officials.
Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez granted Wittels and the two other $10,000 deposit on your Thursday charges in Nassau. The U.S. suspect were not required to enter pleas and returned to the United States.
It is unclear how, or if the cargo Wittels' interferes status with the FIU program. FIU begins his season Feb. 18 and his first three games are set transmitted on television, while Wittels continues his chase of Ventura's record.
FIU Athletic Director Pete Garcia declined an opinion about the charge.
"We are still in the process... and waiting to be completed for the process," Garcia the associated press said on Monday.
Magistrate Derence role Davis starts out a preliminary study on 18 to determine whether sufficient evidence for the case before the Court to go. Until then, the FIU's be season more than half.
Wittels, school and Sun Belt Conference records with its stripes in the year 2010 set, seeking comment on his Facebook account responded to a message sent. He was congratulations on his Twitter feed Sunday night after winning hit national FIU's football team Toledo, the Little Caesars Bowl in Detroit - the first Bowl to win the Golden Panthers football program - but no mention of the legal issues.
Wittels tweeted on Dec. 18, he was going to Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas for several days.
Wittels father, an orthopedic surgeon told the Miami Herald that his son would be confirmed. His son was "devastated" through the allegations, he said.
"Everyone can accuse someone something at any time," Michael Wittels Miami told newspaper during a phone call Monday morning. "He is not well." He is blown away. «He is devastated that someone this would accuse him.»
Michael Wittels, whose Telefon appeared are separated later Monday, said the newspaper, that his son and his friends met the two girls in a casino and you later went to a private party. He said the girls as students at the University of Arkansas apparently even described.
In the Bahamas, the maximum sentence for a first time offender seven years is rape.
Bahamian Attorney Wayne Munroe, who represent the U.S. suspicious is back immediately calls Monday.
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