Police: Coach charged in alleged rape

A 15-year-old Lehigh Township girl told detectives she was confronted in her home early Tuesday by a man with a strong accent, later identified as Australian cycling coach Rick Lee, who forced her up the ...

[Jimmy B]

I have to believe the DNA evidence will be overwhelming one way or the other.

[My View]

Castrate then deport!!!

[Doesnt that]

black and white picture of him look like Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hannible Lecter?

Also, it is bizarre that he has a team of young women/girls with him at all times, then he plucks someone off the internet and does this? Wierd

Still stranger, his wife says she supports him and "would never make anyone do anything against their will" yuk, so does that mean if he claims she consented that it would be okay with that? a 15yr. old?

[LV reader]

BloodRedSky wrote:

Come to America, rape girl, get away with it (ha ha). F**k you!

What evidence are you using to base your opinion? Or is your comment supposed to be funny?

[Smackdown]

Yikes.

[Kooper]

Well, I guess the used condom will tell it all...

[Hoofty]

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,

Bye, Bye, Bye

[wow]

Where does it say that he met her on the internet? And where in Lehigh Township did this allegedly take place?

I guess if there was a used condom on the coffee table and it is found to have his DNA in it, then case closed. However, he could say she agreed. Either way he's not very bright to go after a 15 year old. And the wife's comment was odd the way she said he "wouldn't make anyone do anything against their will. So if the girl wanted it too, then it's alright??

[CarRacer]

Kooper wrote:

Well, I guess the used condom will tell it all...

I thought the same exact thing.

In Australia there is no age for sex I do not believe. So the wife stating these things probably knows that her husband has been with young girls before.

The condom will tell the whole story soon enough.

[Bossy Gillis]

His wife said what!!!!!!!!!!

[emjoy]

I think we're going to find that he did not do this. Who's so stupid as to leave incriminating evidence on the coffee table? Even the biggest idiot would throw the thing away. Why would a man from a foreign country seek out a home in an unknown territory, break in, hoping to find a young girl available for illicit sex, forcibly rape her while using a condom, leave the condom behind, return to the house he's been renting, where he lives with a bunch of teenagers, and then turn himself in when he hears the cops are looking for him? I wonder what really happened.

[Anonymous]

wow wrote:

Where does it say that he met her on the internet? And where in Lehigh Township did this allegedly take place?
I guess if there was a used condom on the coffee table and it is found to have his DNA in it, then case closed. However, he could say she agreed. Either way he's not very bright to go after a 15 year old. And the wife's comment was odd the way she said he "wouldn't make anyone do anything against their will. So if the girl wanted it too, then it's alright??

DISCLAIMER: I'm NOT trying to imply that she consented or "agreed" (as you stated in your post).

I don't think her consent would even matter, since she is a minor.

[TRIPLE K]

2 Aussie nutz to crack, bye bye, go teach kangaroos to ride a bike for the circus, they punch back !!!

[Pard]

emjoy wrote:

I think we're going to find that he did not do this. Who's so stupid as to leave incriminating evidence on the coffee table? Even the biggest idiot would throw the thing away. Why would a man from a foreign country seek out a home in an unknown territory, break in, hoping to find a young girl available for illicit sex, forcibly rape her while using a condom, leave the condom behind, return to the house he's been renting, where he lives with a bunch of teenagers, and then turn himself in when he hears the cops are looking for him? I wonder what really happened.

Your a smart man, I was thinking the same thing. IF he is gulity he would run back to Australia not turn himself in duh

[Newbomb Turk]

There is something fishy about this whole thing. .

[Suze]

Anonymous wrote:

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DISCLAIMER: I'm NOT trying to imply that she consented or "agreed" (as you stated in your post).
I don't think her consent would even matter, since she is a minor.

In the cases where consent was issued, wouldn't there only be a statutory rape charge? In this case he is being charged with both, which leads me to believe that it was not consented... Other articles said that they met on the internet and she claimed to be 19... even if that's true... no is no.

[Doesnt that]

WOW, I read that (internet thing) in the initial report when they were still looking for him. It was included under the initial picture. Maybe that changed after the first reports? Don't know, but remembered it because it sounded so strange considering he was traveling with young girls.
And his wife did say he had been working with young girls for years and never did anything bad and that he wouldn't make someone do something they didn't want to do.....is very strange statement.
Car racer says no age of consent in Australia..(didn't know that if true). I find that strange because the gov't. over there is saying it is cracking down on Aboriginal family sexual abuse. So how do they establish ages if there are none?..unless they are talking family incessed and that's it. I think there must be some kind of age of consent.

[OsFan]

Ohhh..... maybe the condom was someone else's and it's a "plant"!

Or maybe it was Crocodile Dundee?

Maybe it was consensual and he did not know her real age?

Why don't we all wait and see how it pans out for real? That'd be a good idea in all these criminal things, wouldn't it?

[Nothing New]

We had an American Coach leave his wife for a younger girl he coached a few years ago. I am not sure, but I think his name was Gibby Hatten.

He had a wife and baby and left them for a student in his biking class.

No one wanted him to appear or race at the track when this all came out.

I heard it from someone at work who went out there all the time. After the Hatten thing they stopped going.

[currymuncher]

wow wrote:

And the wife's comment was odd the way she said he "wouldn't make anyone do anything against their will. So if the girl wanted it too, then it's alright??

Can't believe she said that.

Wow, I was looking at the laundry list of things he's been charged with - looks like they've thrown the book & the kitchen sink at him.

Whether the charges are ultimately proven or not, this incident (unfairly) gives all Australians a bad name in the US.