St. Petersburg Police will not seek criminal charges against former Tampa Bay Rays' physician Michael Reilly, MD, over an alleged sexual assault, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Here's what you should know.
1. Dr. Reilly was fired in January, after a former employee accused him of sexually assaulting her as a teenager.
2. In the video, uploaded Jan. 17, a woman alleges Dr. Reilly sexually abused her eight to 10 years ago while she was a teenager. She alleged the abuse lasted over a period of three years. Dr. Reilly denied the allegations, but admitted in response he had a consensual relationship with the woman when she was an adult.
3. The woman was seeking criminal charges, but the police department could not establish probable cause to arrest Dr. Reilly on either simple battery or sexual battery charges.
4. St. Petersburg Police Detective Karen Lofton said, "Only having the victim’s statements, no independent witnesses to the offenses and the medical records not matching the original (victim’s) statements, I was unable to develop probable cause to go forward with charges of simple battery and/or sexual battery."
5. Ms. Lofton added because the woman was an adult at the time of the allegations, the statute of limitations for the charges had expired.
6. None of the associated parties commented on the development to the Tampa Bay Times.