Baseball icon Mariano Rivera and wife Clara accused of covering up child sexual abuse at their home and church

New York Yankees fable Mariano Rivera and his woman Clara person been accused of covering up kid intersexual maltreatment that occurred some astatine their location and a summertime campy linked to their church.

The bombshell allegations were laid retired successful a suit filed past week successful State Supreme Court in Westchester County.

'Our suit alleges that Mariano and Clara Rivera had a work to support our lawsuit and missed the accidental to prevention her from the harms of intersexual abuse,' Adam Horowitz, 1 of the lawyers representing the victim, told the New York Post.

Rivera is the pastor of Refuge of Hope Church successful New Rochelle, which is astir 15 miles from Yankee Stadium. 

The plaintiff, identified lone arsenic 'Jane Doe', was convinced by Clara to spell to Gainesville, Florida for a summertime internship that the Ignite Life Center, which was affiliated with Refuge of Hope, was hosting.

While determination Doe was allegedly abused by an older pistillate camper, who was a insignificant astatine the time.

It's alleged Doe was repeatedly abused successful the camp's dormitory and showers, with the older miss 'fondling and penetrating' her breasts, buttocks and genitals. 

When Doe's parent was informed astir the alleged abuse, she contacted Clara to archer her she was 'concerned' for her daughter's safety.

The parent was supposedly 'assured' by Clara that she would analyse erstwhile her and Mariano, a Baseball Hall of Famer, attended the campy themselves.

However, erstwhile they arrived, it's claimed some Mariano and Clara 'each separately isolated' Doe and 'intimidated her to stay silent' to 'avoid causing trouble' for the religion and summertime camp. 

When the campy and internship had concluded, Doe returned to New York and kept attending Refuge of Hope services.

However, an alleged abstracted incidental of maltreatment by the aforesaid older girl, took spot successful August 2018 at a barbecue that was big by the Riveras astatine their Rye, New York location wherever parents were not invited.

The older miss was invited and 'once again sexually abused' Doe. It's claimed she 'engaged successful acts that would represent a intersexual discourtesy nether Article 130 of the New York Penal Law', according to the filing. 

Years later, successful 2021, Doe was past allegedly sexually abused by the big lad of an subordinate pastor, who was moving arsenic a younker person for the Refuge of Hope.

The Riveras 'falsely promoted their activities and premises arsenic being safe, moral, and different escaped of a hazard of harm erstwhile it knew oregon should person known otherwise,' the suit stated. 

Rivera, 55, pitched for the Yankees from 1995 to 2013 and won 5 World Series titles successful The Bronx. He is regarded arsenic 1 of the greatest-ever closers and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame successful 2019.

He has been a staunch protagonist of Donald Trump since the world tv prima archetypal ran arsenic the Republican nominee successful 2016.

In summation to serving connected Trump's Sports, Fitness and Nutrition council, Rivera besides received the Presidential Medal of Freedom successful appreciation for his dominance connected the mound and his inspirational travel from Panama to the Major Leagues. 

Rivera ranks archetypal successful MLB past with 652 saves and remains the lone subordinate ever to beryllium unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

DailyMail.com has contacted the Riveras, the Yankees and Refuge of Hope Church for comment.