Perrish Cox lawsuit: Victim got date-rape drugs before non-consensual sex with ex-Bronco?
The next day, Doe says Cox and another Broncos player, Cassius Vaughn (he's since been traded to the Indianapolis Colts) repeatedly encouraged her and Smith to take showers, which they found odd -- a reaction that seems in keeping with the argument that the sex act with Doe was non-consensual.
Then, about six weeks later, Doe and Thomas joined Smith and Cox on a double date -- and when Doe declined offers of alcohol and marijuana, they "accused her of being pregnant."
Which she was -- and Thomas doesn't seem to have been enthusiastic about being saddled with dadhood. In an October 25 text, he allegedly wrote, "Not my problem I didn't touch ya.. its ur problem to get ur stuff together.. I didn't fuck ya." He's also said to have pressed Doe to get an abortion, texting, "Have told u.. I dont need kids.. I don't want u going to court to spend ur money when u can [GO] to clinic."
Cox's booking photos.
In the end, DNA testing showed that Cox had impregnated Doe. But at trial, Cox, represented by attorney Harvey Steinberg, was exonerated. Why? Here's how our Kyle Garratt described it at the time:
Reasonable doubt that Cox did not rape the woman was all he needed to go free, and it seems Steinberg built a mountain of it out of this detail. He was then able to portray the alleged victim as a functional drinker capable of interacting with others while intoxicated without remembering it. The alleged victim also testified that she wouldn't have considered it rape if she had learned the following day she had sex with Thomas. She was willing to unknowingly have sex with him, but not Cox.
Now, however, Cox and Thomas face eight separate claims for relief focusing on "mental suffering and anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, lost wages, other economic and non-economic damages, plus attorney fees, costs, pre-judgment and post-judgment interest and expert witness fees."
Hard to predict the likelihood of these matters reaching a courtroom, or if instead a settlement will make them quietly go away. But whatever happens, the document remains startling. Here it is.
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