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Retired baseball star Dykstra jailed for lewd conduct

By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was sentenced on Wednesday to 270 days in jail and 36 months probation over charges that he exposed himself to five women who answered his Craigslist ads for an assistant or housekeeper.

One woman told authorities the former ballplayer held a knife and forced her to massage him, prosecutors said.Dykstra, 49, had earlier pleaded no contest to charges of lewd conduct and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the accusations, prosecutors said.In sentencing Dykstra, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered him to stay away from the victims in the case and barred him from posting ads on Craigslist or social networking sites, prosecutors said.The lewd conduct and assault charges were unrelated to two other criminal cases against Dykstra, who was sentenced to three years in state prison in March following an October plea to grand theft auto charges in what prosecutors said was a scheme to lease cars usin...

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