Vince, Linda McMahon Sued Over WWE ‘Ring Boys’ Sexual Abuse Allegations

Vince McMahon is dealing with but any other lawsuit — this future, the previous WWE honcho is being accused of ignoring claims of sexual abuse made through former workers referred to as “Ring Boys.”

The medical doctors have been filed in Baltimore County Wednesday … with Vince’s spouse, Linda McMahon, WWE and its possession, TKO Workforce, additionally named within the lawsuit.

Within the go well with …. it alleges Melvin Phillips Jr. — who served as the hoop workforce leading and ringside announcer — leased underaged boys to lend a hand the workforce with errands and duties for wrestling displays.

It claims the lads have been every now and then as younger as 12 and 13 years impaired … and Phillips’ actual motivation in hiring them “was to sexually abuse them” nearest promising get right of entry to to common WWE occasions.

The regulation company representing the accusers says he focused youngsters from damaged properties … and those incidents passed off in wrestling venues, resort rooms and “in plain sight.”

Phillips died in 2012.

Date he isn’t accused of collaborating within the movements, the go well with states McMahon and the defendants knowingly allowed Phillips to milk his place inside the corporate to “groom and abuse Ring Boys” — which every now and then passed off in entrance of wrestlers and alternative corporate executives.

“Thanks to the bravery of our clients, we finally have a chance to hold accountable those who allowed and enabled the open, rampant sexual abuse of these young boys,” Greg Gutzler, a spouse at DiCello Levitt, mentioned in a press loose.

The company says the FBI recognized a minimum of 10 people assaulted through Phillips, however believes there are extra in the market who’ve remained quiet.

“That so many were aware of the sexual abuse of the ring boys and did nothing to prevent or stop it is simply unconscionable.”