17:43  ,  August 23, 2012

Paralympic athletes out of Games due to sexual assaults

A trainer and two Paralympic athletes of the Jordan team are out of the London Paralympic Games, which will kick off on Aug. 29. The Paralympic athletes are suspected in sexual assaults. The Northern Ireland police detained three men of the Jordan team, who were training in a sport center in the northwest Belfast. All the three are charged with sexual assaults against underage.  They were released on bail on Wednesday and will go back to Jordan on Thursday. However, they will be back to Northern Ireland on Oct. 18 for the first court hearings, news.yahoo.com reports.

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