Opera singer David Daniels and his husband plead responsible to sexual assault

HOUSTON — Famend opera singer David Daniels and his husband have pleaded responsible to sexually assaulting one other singer in Houston.

Daniels, 57, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Scott Walters, 40, entered the pleas Friday after a jury was assembled for the trial of the pair on first-degree felony costs of aggravated sexual assault.

Each pleaded responsible to sexual assault of an grownup, a second-degree felony, and had been sentenced to eight years’ probation and required to register as intercourse offenders.

Daniels, Walters and their legal professional declined to remark following the listening to.

Daniels and Walters had been charged in 2019 when Samuel Schultz filed a felony criticism in 2018 alleging the 2 assaulted him in 2010 after he met them at a Houston Grand Opera reception whereas he was a graduate scholar at Rice College.

Schultz mentioned he was invited to their house and given a drink that led him to slide out and in of consciousness. He awoke alone and bare.

The AP doesn’t usually identify victims of sexual assault, however Schultz provided to publicly determine himself to assist others frightened of reporting an assault.

Daniels, a countertenor, was fired as a College of Michigan professor and was eliminated by the San Francisco Opera from a manufacturing of Handel’s “Orlando” after sexual assault allegations by a scholar on the college in 2018.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal courtroom in Michigan, alleged Daniels groped the male scholar and despatched and requested sexual photographs. The lawsuit additionally alleged that Daniels served the coed alcohol, gave him sleep remedy and touched him sexually.