https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/commen...rmer_bills_punter_matt_araiza_wasnt?context=8
Matt Araiza was a punter, which is a relatively unimportant football position. But he could punt a ball really really far - so far he was nicknamed the "punt god." So when he left college for the NFL last year, he was a draft pick and a reddit superstar. Until he was accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl.
The girl claimed that:
“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.”
The victim's lawyers shared photos of bruises and diary entries:
https://insideheadline.com/photos-a...araiza-sdsu-teammates-gang-rape-nbc-chicago/
https://twitter.com/dangilleon/status/1563252684127293440
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/wysx8r/nbc_photos_allege_to_show_bruising_caused_by_matt/
And reddit reacted with rage that this MALE FEMINIST denied the charges:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/wyohxp/schefter_statement_from_bills_punter_matt_araiza/
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/wzjfsu/joly_statement_from_matt_araizas_attorney_on/
Or that his parents refused to disown him:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/x14ys9/getzenberg_statement_from_the_parents_of_matt/
And they celebrated when the team released him:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/wzh1xj/schefter_bills_have_informed_rookie_punter_matt/
But then prosecutors refused to press charges, which still means he's guilty, right?
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/zfch46/getzenberg_the_san_diego_county_district/
But wait, it must have still been statutory rape, unless he could PROVE that he thought she was 18. Then a video came out of her at the party, repeatedly saying that she's 18 and generally acting whorish:
https://youtu.be/xomuJISRa8k
And now the full story has come out and Reddit is now "I always knew he was innocent!"
https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/13c8gvm/prosecutors_former_bills_punter_matt_araiza_wasnt/
The real story:
The girl and some other high school friends became aware a party was being thrown at the house just a few blocks from the SDSU campus. The group let themselves in through a back gate.
Witness interviews from the party, including two of the girl’s own friends whom she arrived with, said that she didn’t appear to be drunk at the time. Other witnesses said the girl was telling people she was 18.
The girl approached Araiza in the backyard when he was peeing and. According to the prosecutor, when she talked to the girl:
“The witnesses say … that shortly after you arrived at the party, you left and came back shortly thereafter,” [prosecutor] said. “And you told [a friend], ‘I just had sex.’ ... You didn’t appear unhappy. You appeared to be having fun and that the encounter on the side of the house with Matt, suspect Araiza, was consensual."
“you were approaching men at the party saying, ‘I want you to [expletive] me and if you don’t [expletive] me you’re a [expletive].”
She went off with another guy:
“You had returned and then came back and said you had intercourse with a guy, this would have been the second person that would have been in the progression of the evening. Again, you’re described as being OK, not scared or distraught. Seemed happy, seemed consensual.
“Again, you’re not intoxicated at this point that anybody would know your intoxication level to the point that they would not be able to tell that you weren't able to give consent.”
And as for the gangbang later that night:
video recordings of the incident in the bedroom made it impossible to determine, let alone prosecute anyone, on whether there was a gang r*pe at all that night, rather than consensual intercourse with the other men.
Look now, people are deleting their old comments!