Los Angeles July 20 (IANS) "Deadliest Catch" fame actor Edgar Hansen has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
The 47-year-old reality TV fisherman received a 364-day suspended jail sentence and was ordered to pay court fines and fees of $1 653. He will have to undergo a sexual-deviancy evaluation and treatment reports seattletimes.comes.
As per the probable cause affidavit filed in Snohomish County District Court last week Hansen s victim identified as Jane Doe told her therapist in October that Hansen had sexually assaulted her on September 30 2017 at a home in Mountlake Terrace Washington.
On July 11 Hansen admitted touching the girl s genitals last September and making her touch his as well.
"I committed this assault for the purpose of my own sexual gratification. I am very sorry for that conduct and I have commenced treatment to ensure that nothing like this assault ever happens again " Hansen wrote in a statement.
Hansen s guilty plea comes less than two weeks after his older brother Sig Hansen received a one-year deferred sentence and probation for assaulting an Uber driver after a night of drinking last year.
"Deadliest Catch" viewers know Hansen as the deck boss of the Northwestern the Seattle-based crabbing boat he navigated through the Bering Sea with his brother. The brothers rose to fame with their co-starring roles on the long-running Discovery Channel series.

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