Ex-NFL star Taylor charged with NY rape

SUFFERN, New York - Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was charged Thursday with rape for having sex with a 16-year-old runaway forced into prostitution by a man who had beaten her up, police said.

Taylor, a 51-year-old former New York Giants star who has faced drug and tax evasion charges in the past, paid the girl $300 for sex in a Holiday Inn, where he was arrested early on Thursday, alledged Christopher St. Lawrence, supervisor of the town of Ramapo.

The man who'd beaten the girl drove her to Taylor's suburban hotel room while she texted her uncle for help, police said.