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Omar Vizquel, Previously Arrested For Repeatedly Assaulting His Wife, Now Faces Sexual Harassment Lawsuit From Autistic Man (Former Minor League Bat Boy)

Omar Vizquel, accused by his second wife of assaulting her multiple times over a period of years (he was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault in 2016, but the case was not prosecuted), is now being sued for sexual harassment by an autistic man who worked as a bat boy for the minor league Birmingham Barons.

The 25-year-old man claims that in 2019 Vizquel (then the manager of the Barons (the AA affiliate of the White Sox)) engaged in "sexually aggressive behavior", including "deliberately [and] repeatedly expos[ing] his erect penis to [him] and forc[ing] [him] to wash his back in the shower".