LT has hit a new low.
Giants great Lawrence Taylor was charged yesterday with raping a 16-year-old Bronx runaway who was forced to meet him at his upstate hotel room by a killer pimp, authorities said.
Taylor, 51 — as legendary for his bouts with cocaine abuse as for his prowess on the field — allegedly paid the girl $300 for the seedy tryst early yesterday at a Holiday Inn in Suffern, where she was dragged by the pimp with another female from New York City, officials said.
“She did not walk into that hotel room by herself. She was delivered to that room by the pimp,” said Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, who called the underage girl a “victim.”
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Taylor’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, said his client staunchly denied the charges.
“My client didn’t have sex with anybody, period,” Aidala said.
Sources say accused pimp Rasheed Davis, 36, beat and kicked the terrified girl as they drove to Taylor’s hotel, but before they left the city, she managed to text-message her estranged uncle, who alerted cops. When the pimp and the girl returned to Davis’ apartment in The Bronx early yesterday, police were waiting, law-enforcement sources said.
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After busting Davis, cops interviewed the girl, who had a fresh black eye, and she told them Davis forced her to have sex with a man she didn’t know in Room 160 at the hotel.
When police went to the room, they discovered that Taylor was the occupant, sources said.
Investigators seized a condom, a liquor bottle, bed sheets and other evidence from the room after arresting the two-time Super Bowl-winning linebacker.
The Hall of Famer, who lives in Florida, “has been very cooperative,” said St. Lawrence.
The scandal-plagued sack master was freed on $75,000 bond after being charged in Ramapo Town Court with third-degree rape — having sex with a child under the age of 17, regardless of whether force was used — and with patronizing a prostitute.
The shocking scandal comes more than 12 years after Taylor — considered one of the greatest NFL players in history — claims to have gotten sober after being addicted to cocaine and living a wild life that included sex sessions with prostitutes.
He has previously been arrested on drug-related charges, served five years of probation for tax evasion and filing false returns, and is currently being prosecuted in Florida for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident last November.
Taylor, through his agent, Mark Lepselter, told The Post last night, “Giant fans have always treated me like their own, and I’ve always appreciated that. And I hope they’ll continue to do so.”
The rape charges could send the ex-Giant to prison for up to four years if he is convicted. Under the law, ignorance of a sex partner’s age is no defense to statutory rape.
Defense lawyer Aidala told Judge Arnold Etelson that Taylor was a “loving and caring family man” who is married with three kids.
Taylor’s wife, Lynnette, told TMZ.com the allegations are “all bulls- -t,” and called the timing of the arrest suspicious and claiming her husband was set up.
Taylor’s golf buddy Dino Kyriacou posted the bond.
Holiday Inn employees said they spotted Kyriacou, who owns the nearby Airmont Diner, at the hotel with Taylor on Wednesday night, hours before the girl arrived.
Before the arraignment, one of LT’s golfing buddies scornfully said to some pals sitting in the Ramapo courtroom, “There was no gun put to any little girl’s head.”
But law-enforcement sources said Taylor had an unnamed intermediary order up a girl from Davis.
A source close to Taylor said the gridiron great had been drinking with some friends and mentioned that female companionship would be nice, which one of his companions misinterpreted to mean he wanted a prostitute. The girl then showed up at his room, unannounced, hours later, the source said.
Davis, the 36-year-old alleged pimp, faces federal child-sex trafficking charges, sources said.
The Bronx resident was conditionally released from prison in May 2008 after serving 15 years for the 1991 manslaughter of a 16-year-old high-school student he shot during an argument at a party. He could now be sent back to serve the 10 years remaining on his original sentence.
Law-enforcement sources said the girl, who only recently turned 16, left the home where she had been living with an uncle and aunt several weeks ago and moved in with some other relatives.
But she moved out of that house just days later, and claimed to be heading back to her uncle when she met Davis at a Bronx bus stop, sources said.
Davis offered her a place to stay — a room in his apartment — and the girl moved in, sources said. Her worried sister at one point checked in on her at that apartment, sources said, but in recent weeks, Davis had the girl start to give men lap dances for money, and then had her engage in sexual activity, sources said.
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano, Liz Sadler and Jeane MacIntosh