A Texas MMA coach and husband of a UFC fighter has been arrested after allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor.
Jacob Brennan, 40, husband of UFC ladies’s bantamweight Hailey Cowan, was arrested Sunday with indecency with a baby with sexual contact, a second-degree felony in Texas. Attainable sentences embody from two to twenty years in jail.
The information first was reported by KWTX-TV in Waco, close to the place Brennan runs Subsequent Era/Blitz MMA in Robinson.
In keeping with the felony criticism affidavit, a lady instructed investigators Brennan inappropriately touched her when he coached her between 2013 and 2015, the station reported. On the time of the beginning of the alleged abuse, the girl was 13; Brennan was 30.
The lady met with detectives in early November 2023. In keeping with her assertion within the affidavit, “Brennan kissed her a whole bunch of occasions and touched her vagina above and under her garments a whole bunch of occasions between 2013 and 2015.”
An Instagram web page that went reside about three months earlier than Brennan’s arrest consists of screenshots of alleged messages from Brennan to the girl when she was a youngster, in addition to Fb screenshots of photographs of them collectively on the health club in teams and of simply the 2 of them.
Cowan, who married Brennan in 2022, began coaching on the health club in 2014 and seems in a number of the photographs.
Brennan was arrested and booked into McLennan County (Texas) Jail on Sunday. Bail was set at $75,000. Brennan shouldn’t be listed as a present inmate on the jail as of publication time.
Jacob Brennan (picture by way of McLennan County Jail, Texas)
Cowan (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC), a former collegiate gymnast at Baylor, gained on Dana White’s Contender Collection in 2022 and obtained an eventual UFC contract. The 32-year-old missed weight for her UFC debut just a little greater than a yr in the past and misplaced a call to Jamey-Lyn Horth.
Cowan was set to return this previous September towards Zarah Fairn however pulled out with an harm. She additionally was imagined to be again this previous Saturday at UFC Battle Night time 241, however posted photographs just lately of a badly bruised decrease leg and mentioned a damaged shin took her out of a struggle with Tamires Vidal.
Brennan has coached Cowan in her DWCS and UFC fights. He additionally appeared together with her on the purple carpet for the Rose Namajunas documentary at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in 2022.
Editor’s be aware: The unique publication of this story incorrectly acknowledged that Brennan is going through expenses. He has not been charged presently.
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