According to Justin Tasch of the New York Post, Rivera and his wife Clara were accused of concealing the sexual abuse of a minor on multiple occasions in 2018, at their estate and at a summer camp associated with their church. Tasch shared this statement on the ongoing development:

A teenage girl is seeking compensatory and punitive damages after claiming she was sexually assaulted on multiple occasions at events connected to a church where Clara Rivera, wife of New York Yankees Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera,