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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has been accused of a 2020 sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Monday in Texas. The lawsuit, a copy of which has been obtained and reviewed by CBS Sports, was filed by attorney Tony Buzbee, who also represented many of the 25-plus women that previously sued Watson for varying degrees of sexual assault.
The prior lawsuits were settled out of court. The NFL penalized Watson with an 11-game suspension ahead of the 2022 season.
Watson is being accused of sexual assault and battery in the latest lawsuit. The woman, referred to as “Jane Doe,” alleges that an extremely disturbing encounter with Watson occurred at her home in October 2020.
“This is an extremely serious matter,” Buzbee said in a statement to CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones. “We intend to pursue this case with the same aggressiveness with which we pursued the others. We want a jury trial. As far as any specific comments on the facts of the case, we believe the lawsuit speaks for itself.”
The plaintiff alleges she was approached at a Houston bar by Watson’s representatives, which requested her phone number for the quarterback. Doe says she was “flattered” by Watson’s approach and gave the representative her phone number; soon after, she and Watson began “texting intermittently” for “several months.” Doe subsequently declined an invitation to a Houston Galleria event but claims she invited Watson to have dinner at her apartment.
The lawsuit claims Watson agreed to meet at her apartment, but on the night of Oct. 10, 2020, allegedly called Doe’s cellphone “aggressively yelling and screaming” about being unable to find the apartment telling Doe he doesn’t “have time for this.”
When Watson finally arrived, Doe claims she was not ready as she “had not finished putting on her makeup.” She says Watson was invited to sit in the living room as she attempted to make conversation….
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Author : Will Brinson
Publish date : 2024-09-10 01:48:05
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