“The whole thing was a hoax,” Scott told the New York Daily News as he stood outside his Harlem apartment.
“They’re pursuing a case that has no proven evidence for it, and they’re relying on the testimonies of criminals and liars.”
Prosecutors say Scott, 36, met a pimp and two young girls, runaways, in Times Square in June 2008.
He allegedly paid the pimp and brought the girls, ages 14 and 16, to his old apartment and pressured the younger one into sex.
Scott called the story bogus, saying he met the girls but only allowed them into his home because one was distressed and asked to use his bathroom.
“I was trying to get to the bottom of why she was in so much distress and why she was crying,” Scott told the Daily News. “I’m a medical doctor. For me to lend a helping hand, it’s not abnormal.”
Scott reportedly left his broadcasting career in New York last year for sports medicine.
He graduated from Wright State Medical School in 2001 and was a top running back for the Dayton Skyhawks, a professional indoor football team until 2000, according to a Wright State fall 2008 issue of Vital Signs.
Scott said matters surrounding the charges are “explainable.”
He was charged Tuesday with rape, patronizing a prostitute and endangering the welfare of a child, charges that carry up to seven years in prison.
Scott played football at the University of Illinois and the University of Delaware.
According to his Web site, drmarvellph.com, Scott came to Dayton in 1996 to work as a sports broadcaster.
In his New York sports medicine practice, he designs longevity and performance programs for athletes, adolescents and individuals with chronic medical problems. He also personally trains select individuals, and serves as a life coach, the site said.
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