A Texas MMA coach and husband of a UFC fighter has been arrested after allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor.
Jacob Brennan, 40, husband of UFC ladies’s bantamweight Hailey Cowan, was arrested Sunday and charged with indecency with a toddler with sexual contact, a second-degree felony in Texas. Doable sentences embrace from two to twenty years in jail.
The information first was reported by KWTX-TV in Waco, close to the place Brennan runs Subsequent Era/Blitz MMA in Robinson.
In accordance with the prison grievance affidavit, a girl informed investigators Brennan inappropriately touched her when he coached her between 2013 and 2015, the station reported. On the time of the beginning of the abuse, the alleged sufferer was 13; Brennan was 30.
The sufferer met with detectives in early November 2023. In accordance with her assertion within the affidavit, “Brennan kissed her a whole lot of occasions and touched her vagina above and under her garments a whole lot of occasions between 2013 and 2015.”
An Instagram web page that went dwell about three months earlier than Brennan’s arrest contains screenshots of alleged messages from Brennan to the sufferer, in addition to Fb screenshots of images of the them collectively on the health club in teams, and likewise simply the 2 of them. Cowan, who reportedly began coaching on the health club in 2014, seems in a few of the images. She married Brennan in 2022.
Brennan was arrested and booked into McLennan County (Texas) Jail on Sunday. Bail was set at $75,000. Brennan just isn’t listed as a present inmate on the jail as of publication time.
Jacob Brennan (picture by way of McLennan County Jail, Texas)
Cowan (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC), a former collegiate gymnast at Baylor, gained on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in 2022 and obtained an eventual UFC contract. The 32-year-old missed weight for her UFC debut a little bit greater than a 12 months in the past and misplaced a choice to Jamey-Lyn Horth.
Cowan was set to return this previous September in opposition to Zarah Fairn however pulled out with an harm. She additionally was imagined to be again this previous Saturday at UFC Combat Evening 241 however posted images not too long ago of a badly bruised decrease leg and stated a damaged shin took her out of a combat with Tamires Vidal.
Brennan has coached Cowan in her DWCS and UFC fights. He additionally appeared together with her on the pink carpet for the Rose Namajunas documentary at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in 2022.
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