Ex-Rice U Fencing Coach Accused of Sexually Assaulting A Minor
Rice University’s former fencing coach Mauro Hamza has been accused of sexually assaulting one of his female pupils when she was only 17 at a Phoenix hotel in 1995 according to a civil lawsuit filed in Arizona. The suit accuses Hamza of not only coercing the anonymous plaintiff to have sex with him in their shared hotel room during a youth fencing tournament, but also claims he repeatedly molested and sexually harassed her in the years after she first met Hamza in Houston at age 15 at an event sponsored by Rice’s fencing club in 1994. A Rice News article from 2001 says that Hamza official...
Source: houstonpress.com