Another plaintiff, former dance student Sage Humphries, says she was repeatedly raped by the couple in a room of their apartment with an arsenal of guns hanging on the wall, court documents show. Humphries also alleges that the Buttons controlled her social media, stopped her from speaking to her family, encouraged her to dress like Dusty, and eventually forced her to live with them full-time. The couple is also accused of coercing their students into secrecy by vowing to harm their dance careers and, on one occasion, threatening to slit the throats of a minor's father and boyfriend.
The shocking allegations come from an updated complaint, filed on September 27, which names Dusty Button as a defendant after an initial complaint from July last year, had only named her as a "non-party co-conspirator.
The previous complaint also accused Mitchell Taylor Button of sexually assaulting two minors, both students, between and Court documents show that the couple is accused of federal sex trafficking and forced labor violations and accuses Mitchell Taylor Button separately of assault, battery, false imprisonment, and sexual exploitation of a minor.
According to the suit, Mitchell Taylor Button sexually assaulted Humphries on a regular basis over the course of some months and performed violent sex acts on her without her consent. It says that on several occasions, Dusty Button held Humphries down while her husband sexually assaulted the young dancer. The lawsuit also accuses Mitchell Taylor Button of verbal and physical abuse. According to the lawsuit, the Buttons wielded nearly complete physical and financial control over Humphries.
Humphries sought and received abuse protection orders against both Buttons. The documents reveal that Taylor Button is accused of grooming and abusing at least five dancers with the help of his wife. Sage Humphries, one of the dancers who was mentored by the couple and filed the initial complaint, alleged the couple abused her and groomed her by isolating her from her family and friends. Humphries, a dancer with the Boston Ballet, alleges she was often forced to have sex with Taylor while Dusty held her down.
Another dancer, identified as Jane Doe , was a minor when she met the couple, who claimed they could make her "a star," according to the complaint. However, one night the couple invited Jane to a party and gave her drinks. Afterward, the Buttons allegedly brought Jane back to their apartment and into "a room that had a mattress on the floor and an arsenal of guns hanging on the wall," the complaint states.
Taylor is also accused of abusing several young students at a dance studio in Florida, including one minor to whom he allegedly wrote a love letter to that read: "God sent you to make to make up for my lack of family.
The choice of Maton, a righthander, was an inspired one that also spoke to the deft ways of Strom and Baker. The batter due up with the tying run on third was Rafael Devers, whose. So why Maton? Maton, 28, was not drafted out of high school or after his junior year at Louisiana Tech. After his senior year, he was a 20th-round pick in by San Diego. In high school and college, Maton always was taught to keep his fastball down.
It showed he had elite major league spin. It opened a new baseball world for Maton. The pitching coach there, Nelson Cruz, encouraged him to throw his fastball high in the zone. In , he started at low-A and finished in Triple-A. In , he was in the big leagues. In July , the Padres traded him to Cleveland for international slot money. At the deadline this year, when the Astros were re-making their bullpen Yimi Garcia, Kendall Graveman, Ryne Stanek , he was traded for Miles Straw, the Houston starting centerfielder for the first four months.
But we recognize things. This organization does a great job of identifying peripherals, and not just the ERAs and strikeouts. The peripherals are huge. Though Maton averages only With below average velocity, Maton had the third best swing-and-miss fastball rate min. There was but one reason Maton was in the game: to throw his sneaky high fastball to Devers.
Strom and Baker knew they wanted this matchup before the series began. When Maton threw his fastball, it was the th fastball of the pitches Houston threw to Devers this year. Down 2—0, the Red Sox had runners on first and third with one out. Graveman fell behind, 3-and-1, to Travis Shaw. Graveman is a power sinker specialist. He had never thrown a 3-and-1 changeup this year. And it was a beauty for a called second strike. Now it was 3-and-2 and Maldonado and Cora had decisions.
Maldonado needed to decide on a pitch.
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