NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Caribbean Olympic sprinter accused of attacking women in New York City parks since 2003 has been ordered to take a psychiatric exam, according to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
Alvin Henry, 30, a former member of the Trinidad and Tobago relay team in the 2000 Sydney Olympic games, was arraigned Monday night. He was charged with two counts of rape, sexual abuse, coercion and endangering the welfare of a child in the Brooklyn incidents.
He was held Monday night without bail.
A New York Police Department statement said previously that the same man also was a suspect in several sexual attacks in Queens parks.
Nicole Navis, a spokeswoman for the Queens district attorney's office, said Tuesday that Henry has not been charged in the attacks in that borough. However, Chief Michael Collins, a police spokesman, said Tuesday that Henry was expected to be charged in Queens as well.
Brian Lewis, secretary general of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that Henry had been a promising athlete.
"Mr. Henry, through sport, was able to make notable progress from his early troubled days,'' Lewis said. "He showed tremendous potential running at one time.''
Photo of Henry courtesy of WNBC.com.
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