TV Guide has confirmed that Lincoln Adim was convicted of indecent assault and battery in Boston, Mass. on May 21.
One of the contestants on Becca Kufrin’s season of The Bachelorette was convicted of a serious crime days before the show premiered in May.
“Mr. Adim was convicted on May 21, 2018 of indecent assault and battery for groping and assaulting an adult female on a harbor cruise ship early on May 30, 2016.
The Bachelor and The Bachelorette have had issues with failure to properly investigate contestants’ social media histories for problematic content, but this is a larger, potentially more complicated oversight than those.