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BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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A Milwaukee teen-ager filed a civil suit against Luis Polonia and the Pfister Hotel, claiming she suffered “significant physical and emotional damages” from a sexual encounter she had with Polonia in 1989, when he was with the Yankees.

Polonia pleaded guilty to having sex with the girl, then 15, and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $10,000 to the Sexual Assault Treatment Center. The suit, which claimed the hotel was negligent because an employee let the girl and Polonia in through a locked side door, did not state an amount of monetary damages.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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