Gold medal winner Angelo Taylor sentenced to probation

<p>Angelo Taylor, a former star athlete at Georgia Tech who won two gold medals in the 2000 Olympics, has been sentenced to three years probation for contributing to the delinquency of two 15-year-old girls.</p><p>DeKalb County prosecutors dropped a child molestation charge after Taylor, 27, pleaded guilty last week to the lesser charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.</p><p>Superior Court Judge Mark Anthony Scott also fined Taylor $2,500 and ordered evaluation for possible sex offender treatment.</p><p>Taylor, of Decatur, was accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl in December 2004. He also was arrested at a DeKalb park in January 2005 when an officer said he found him naked in a car with a different teenager.</p><p>Taylor's brother, Corey Bernard Taylor, 24, also pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor in the December 2004 incident. He was sentenced to a year on probation and sex offender evaluation.</p><p>Angelo Taylor won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles and 1,600-meter relay in the Sydney Olympics.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd99ec)</p>

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