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Prosecutors: Former Bills punter Matt Araiza wasn't present during alleged gang rape
Yahoo! Sports ^ | May 8, 2023, 5:52 PM CDT | Dan Wetzel

Posted on 05/09/2023 11:32:56 AM PDT by Red Badger

Last August, just days after earning the starting job as the Buffalo Bills' punter, rookie Matt Araiza was the subject of a civil lawsuit alleging he and two San Diego State football teammates participated in a gang rape of an intoxicated 17-year-old girl.

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The graphic allegations in the civil lawsuit, however, created a public frenzy. It included a claim that during an Oct. 15, 2021, party at a home near the SDSU campus, Araiza led the girl into a bedroom where “at least three other men” waited.

“Once inside, Araiza threw [the girl] onto the bed face first,” the lawsuit read. “[The girl] went in and in and out of consciousness while” suffering through “the horrific gang rape.” It lasted an hour and a half, the lawsuit read, before she “stumbled out of the room bloody and crying” in part because “multiple piercings had ripped through the skin during the attack.”

Within days the Bills cut Araiza, who due to his record breaking NCAA career and an 82-yard punt in a preseason game, had earned the nickname “Punt God.”

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Perhaps most notably, the district attorney’s office concluded Araiza couldn’t have led the girl into the alleged gang rape because he had “left” the home at about 12:30 a.m., an hour prior to when evidence suggested the alleged gang rape would have occurred.

“He wasn’t even at the party anymore,” deputy district attorney Trisha Amador explained to the girl. Later Amador stated of the timeline of events, “All I know is that at that point, suspect Araiza is gone from the party.”

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bills; buffalo; nfl; sandiego

1 posted on 05/09/2023 11:32:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Now where does he go to get his reputation and missed salary back?.........................


2 posted on 05/09/2023 11:33:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think the Bills are on the hook. Fired on false pretense. The NFL can die for all I care.


3 posted on 05/09/2023 11:35:54 AM PDT by Right Brother (Democrats are 💩)
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To: Red Badger

He should start with that girls lawyers......whoever concocted that lawsuit needs to be wopped with a knotted plow line.


4 posted on 05/09/2023 11:44:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

This kind of stuff devalues real victims of sexual assault. The Democrats dragged out an absolutely insane ditz in Blasey-Ford to smear Brett Kavanaugh and their voters found her credible even when none of the people she said were there remembered. She even got the year wrong but she made a lot of money and has basically ghosted.


5 posted on 05/09/2023 11:44:33 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Red Badger

The NFL? Let’s not spill our Bud Light over it. The Bills might be on the hook, but probably not to the extent they should be.


6 posted on 05/09/2023 11:51:53 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: Right Brother

The NFL (National Felons League) has been dead to me since the late 70s.


7 posted on 05/09/2023 11:59:38 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

why did she pick him?

its a civil suit

who at the party had the most money?


8 posted on 05/09/2023 12:01:06 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

Probably because he was drafted by the NFL and that means big bucks.................


9 posted on 05/09/2023 12:02:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Gee, that helps him now that his life has been destroyed. Where does he go to recover the lost opportunity and earnings? He would have been (and still may be) a premier punter in the NFL. But he will never get that time back.


10 posted on 05/09/2023 12:50:03 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Red Badger

“He wasn’t even at the party anymore,”

Still, he might have given her a peck on the cheek before he left, did the prosecutors consider that?


11 posted on 05/09/2023 2:18:46 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: joshua c

That’s why, if you are a man with any money, it’s not smart to ever be alone with a woman who is not your wife.

And if you are a man with any money, it’s also probably not smart to take a wife in this day an age either.

Being smart can get pretty lonely nowadays. Unless you intend to stay poor, then game on I guess.


12 posted on 05/09/2023 2:21:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

Well, that’s very inconvenient. Who does he think he is?


13 posted on 05/09/2023 2:26:49 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Red Badger

Abandoning the other rapists just so he can not be part of the crime! What a jerk!


14 posted on 05/09/2023 2:27:18 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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