Yankees icon Mariano Rivera, wife Clara at center of bombshell sexual assault lawsuit

Yankees great and Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera and his wife Clara are facing a shocking lawsuit alleging the couple covered up the sexual abuse of a minor at their Rye, New York, home and at a summer camp connected with their church.The bombshell lawsuit, which was viewed by The Post, was filed last week in State Supreme Court in Westchester County and alleges the Riveras failed to act after learning that a young girl linked to their Refuge of Hope church in New Rochelle was sexually abused. “Our lawsuit alleges that Mariano and Clara Rivera had a duty to protect our client and missed the opportunity to save her from the harms of sexual abuse,” Adam Horowitz of Horowitz Law, one of the lawyers representing the victim, said in a statement provided to The Post. The Post’s request for comment to a representative of Rivera regarding the amended complaint went unanswered. The plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe, attended a summer internship in 2018 at Clara’s suggestion at the Ignite Life Center in Gainesville, Florida, where alleged abuse by an older girl, who was a minor at the time, took place.Doe claims she was repeatedly sexually abused in the camp’s dormitory and shower, with the older girl “fondling and penetrating” Doe’s breasts, buttocks and genitals.Mariano and Clara Rivera later traveled down to the Ignite Life Center in Gainesville after Jane Doe’s mother expressed “she was concerned for Jane A Doe’s safety at the summer camp,” the suit states. The mother was said to have been “assured” that Clara would look into her concerns and “respond accordingly.”However, the suit claims, that when the Riveras made the trip, where they “learned or should have learned information” about the sexual abuse taking place, they “each separately isolated and intimated Jane Doe to remain silent about her abuse” in order to “avoid causing trouble” for both church organizations. The suit states the girl returned to New York a...