Bills punter Matt Araiza has been accused in civil suit of raping a minor while at San Diego State

Matt Araiza, who was drafted by the Buffalo Payments and is usually often known as The Punt God, has been accused in a lawsuit of gang raping a minor together with two different San Diego State teammates. The Payments have been knowledgeable in late July by the lawyer who filed the go well with in San Diego Superior Court docket

Right here’s ESPN’s report primarily based on the go well with:

“The lawsuit, obtained by ESPN, entails allegations in opposition to Araiza and two of his former San Diego State teammates. The opposite males named within the criticism are Zavier Leonard, a redshirt freshman with the Aztecs, and Nowlin Ewaliko, who was a freshman final season however is not on the listed roster. All three are accused of rape, gender violence and false imprisonment.

The lawsuit accuses Araiza, who was 21 on the time, of getting intercourse with the then-high college senior, who was underneath the age of consent in California, outdoors at an off-campus occasion held at his residence throughout the early hours of Oct. 17, 2021. The go well with states Araiza then introduced her inside a room the place no less than three different males have been, together with Leonard and Ewaliko, and that she was repeatedly raped for about an hour and a half till the occasion was shut down.”

After all information retailers needed to break the story because the workforce didn’t, however the largest joke about all of that is for the reason that alleged rape occurred previous to Araiza being drafted, he’s not topic to the league’s private conduct coverage.

The Payments launched an announcement:

“[The Bills] have been not too long ago made conscious of a civil criticism involving Matt from October 2021. Because of the severe nature of the criticism, we carried out a radical examination of this matter. As that is an ongoing civil case, we can have no different remark at this level.”

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The NFL mentioned it was conscious of the accusation however had no remark.

Araiza’s lawyer, Kenny Armstrong, had not learn the criticism when reached by the L.A. Instances but advised the paper the allegations have been false and mentioned that his personal “investigator spoke to witnesses from the occasion who contradict the allegations in opposition to Araiza.”

An lawyer for Ewaliko was reported within the Instances saying, “he couldn’t touch upon the lawsuit and that he was nonetheless investigating what transpired.”

And an lawyer representing Leonard advised the Instances he had not seen the go well with and couldn’t remark.

Anticipating sports activities leagues to be the judges, juries, and executioners of the world is silly, however it might be good in the event that they glided by the court docket of public opinion extra actually because they’re not required to uphold the letter of the legislation. Glad Ladies’s Equality Day, I suppose.