Honey Boo Boo's boyfriend Dralin Carswell, 21, 'was arrested and accused of statutory rape in 2019'

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Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson's boyfriend Dralin Carswell, 21, was reportedly arrested and accused of statutory rape in 2019, before beginning his relationship with the reality star, 16.Dralin was arrested on May 29, 2019 and originally charged with statutory rape, according to police and court documents obtained by The Sun.The alleged victim was not Alana, and the incident appears to have occurred before they began their relationship, the publication notes.

Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson's boyfriend Dralin Carswell, 21, was reportedly arrested and accused of statutory rape in 2019, before beginning his relationship with the reality star, 16; Carswell pictured with Honey Boo Boo in an Instagram post shared April 2022The alleged victim was brought into the police department by her mother, who claimed Dralin, then age 18, climbed into her daughter's window and had sex with the minor, then age 15, according to The Sun, citing the police report.The officer wrote in the report that they interviewed the minor.'I asked the daughter if it was consensual, and she stated "Yes."'The minor also informed the officer that 'her plan with Carswell was for him to come to the house and while there they had consensual unprotected sex in her bedroom,' The Sun reports.Police were then allegedly told by Dralin that the minor 'was his girlfriend and they had talked about him coming to her house...

but he did not actually go to the house,' according to the site.Dralin claimed to police that he had been at his friend's house all day and night.

Alana and Dralin have now been dating for over a year and her family has approved of him despite their age differenceBut, when the friends Dralin claimed he was with were interviewed by police, two of.