Payments breakout rookie punter Matt Araiza is reportedly being accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old woman final yr whereas at San Diego State College.
Araiza, who earned the nickname “Punt God” attributable to his booming kicks whereas with the Aztecs, faces a civil lawsuit filed Thursday in California, in response to the Los Angeles Instances. The 22-year-old, together with two different San Diego State soccer gamers, are alleged to have had intercourse with the minor at an off-campus social gathering, per the report. The sufferer claims she went out and in of consciousness in the course of the incident.
Araiza’s lawyer denied the allegations to the outlet, claiming his consumer’s newfound standing prompted the accusations.
“It’s a shakedown as a result of he’s now with the Buffalo Payments,” Armstrong stated. “There isn't a doubt in my thoughts that Matt Araiza ever raped that woman.”
The opposite two people named within the go well with are Zavier Leonard and Nowlin “Pa’a” Ewaliko.
The go well with claims Araiza gave the girl a drink on the social gathering, which she claims “not solely contained alcohol, however different intoxicating substances,” per the report. She claims she informed Araiza she was a highschool pupil and that he knew she was visibly intoxicated, however he demanded she carry out oral intercourse.
Additional, she says Araiza took her right into a separate room with Leonard, Ewaliko and at the very least one different man, whom she stated threw her on the mattress and proceeded to rape her for an hour and a half. Throughout it, she reportedly says she seen a lightweight resembling a mobile phone video. The girl, she says, had her nostril, stomach button and ear piercings ripped out.
Armstrong informed the outlet he doesn't imagine the girl was intoxicated.
A record-breaker in faculty, Araiza lately received Buffalo’s beginning punting job after turning eyes in preseason, together with an 82-yard rocket within the crew’s first preseason recreation. The kick went viral, bringing his “Punt God” moniker and persona to new ranges within the NFL.
In faculty, Araiza earned unanimous All-American honors and received the Ray Man Award, given to the nation’s greatest punter, throughout his junior season. He set a number of NCAA punting data, together with kicks over 50 yards and punts over 60 yards in a season. He led the nation in common distance per punt as nicely.
Araiza’s standout collegiate play earned him a sixth-round choice within the 2022 NFL Draft — a rarity for a kicking specialist to even be drafted — taken by the Payments. After the crew launched veteran Matt Haack, Araiza’s beginning job was seemingly secured.
San Diego State has confronted scrutiny after a latest Los Angeles Instances report discovered the college didn't correctly alert the campus neighborhood of the allegations, as a substitute ready seven months.
Campus officers stated that call was attributable to San Diego police asking the college to not intervene with its investigation. The varsity agreed to adjust to the prison investigation and commenced its personal investigative course of in July.
Per the report, data present questions had been raised in regards to the college’s eagerness to query or punish Araiza amid the crew’s profitable season.
“99% of the soccer gamers are conscious of the 5-person rape so the remainder of the student-athletes are left questioning why nothing is being carried out,” one student-athlete reportedly stated.
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