Monday, September 14, 2009

Scandal touches one of the darlings of rodeo

Trevor Brazile is well-known for being an amazing calf and steer roper and an all-around good guy. He has won numerous national awards and has been one of the best calf ropers this past decade. Unfortunately scandal has touched the family of this golden boy. I found an article that concerns Trevor's father, Jimmy Brazile. He has been arrested and accused of assaulting a teenage girl that he was helping to learn how to rope. This article was found on a non profit website called SHARK. The details of the ongoing assult, and it was ongoing for more than a year, are present in the article. This goes to show that even though there are stereotypes that cowboys are just good ol' boys that get a little rowdy, there are dangerous people that come in all shapes and sizes. This is one of the last men anyone would expect to behave in this matter, and yet it seems Jimmy had no regard for the illegality of what he was doing with this teenage girl. To further verify this story I found an article from the Wise County Messenger that reported the same incident with basically the same details as SHARK. Some of the content has been changed from when I first found this article due to reader complaints of the graphic language used in the original article.

1 comment:

  1. It's interesting that the article about sexual abuse was on an animal rights website. I'm not sure what to think about that but it is interesting.

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