'DWTS' Favorite Paige VanZant's Brother Arrested In Sick Child Sex-Abuse Scandal
May 13 2016, Updated 4:36 p.m. ET
Paige VanZant — a Dancing With the Stars fan favorite and mixed martial arts fighter — is hiding an appalling child sex-abuse scandal!
According to official court records uncovered exclusively by RadarOnline.com, the brawling beauty's brother is a convicted child molester now serving time for an attempted sex attack on a 13-year-old boy.
VanZant, a former child model who is ranked seventh in the UFC's Women's Strawweight Division, has often talked about growing up as a tomboy in Oregon with older brother Steven Sletten, 24. She stopped using the last name Sletten years ago.
"My brother and I used to box each other in our neighborhood," VanZant, 22, has recalled.
But she's failed to ever mention Sletten is now prisoner #19425143 at the Santiam Correctional Institution in Salem, Ore.
The 235-pound predator was arrested in April 2012 after a youth, then 13, told detectives Sletten had abused him more than once while visiting a friend who lived in Corvallis.
The abuse allegedly began in May 2011, and after investigators found child [expletive] on Sletten's computer. He was arrested and charged with four counts of sodomy, two counts of sexual abuse and first-degree online sexual corruption of a minor.
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In a plea deal, Sletten pled guilty to attempted sodomy and attempted sexual abuse in March 2013. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and five-years of probation, according to the clerk at the Benton County Circuit Court.
VanZant's brother will be eligible for early release in May 2017.
