Former NFL player Kellen Winslow II was sentenced Wednesday, March 3, 2021, to 14 years in prison for multiple rapes and other sexual offenses against five women in Southern California, including one who was destitute when he assaulted her in 2018.
He is the son to San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame beneficiary Kellen Winslow. He showed up by means of videoconference at the court hearing in San Diego Superior in Vista, a city north of San Diego. He declined to remark before his sentence, saying his legal counselors had prompted him not to talk.
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman said Winslow chose ladies who were powerless in view of their age or their everyday environment with the possibility that “hopefully he would get away with it in his mind.” The 37-year-old was described with “two words and that is sexual predator.”
Kellen Winslow II was at one time the most generously compensated tight end in the alliance, playing for the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers among others, getting paid more than $40 million over his 10 seasons before he left in 2013.
Five victims of the former player gave their statements yesterday. All described suffering years after their attacks from fear and emotional trauma.
The father of two, whose spouse sought legal separation after he was sentenced, had looked as long as 18 years in jail for all the charges. In any case, the two sides consented to decrease the sexual battery accuse to assault of expectation to commit rape a month ago. That decreased the most extreme sentence to 14 years.