The ex-wife of former Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Nate Newton recently opened up to Sports Illustrated about the physical abuse she suffered while married to Nate.
Dorothy Newton claims that the Dallas Cowboys were aware of the abuse and still chose not to do anything about it.
Here are the details from the Huffington Post:
Dorothy Newton, the ex-wife of former Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Nate Newton, claimed in an interview with Sports Illustrated on Wednesday that the team allegedly knew that she was being domestically abused during the 1990s, but did not do anything about it.
In the interview with SI, Newton goes into detail about some of the incidents of domestic abuse she claims to have experienced while being married to Nate.
“In the beginning … there was a lot of verbal abuse, and I didn’t recognize it as abuse,” Newton said. She said the verbal abuse shifted to physical violence after Nate’s first Super Bowl victory while with the Cowboys.
According to Dorothy, one of her friends eventually told someone within the Dallas franchise about what was going on between her and Nate once the relationship got more violent. Afterward, Dorothy claimed, Nate shot at her and shoved a table into her stomach while she was pregnant.
With the Cowboys already taking plenty of heat for signing Greg Hardy, this is another bad look for the franchise. While these allegations have not been proven at this time, and starts to make you wonder how things like this are handled behind closed doors.
If the Cowboys indeed had knowledge of the situation happening between Newton and his wife, then they are just as guilty as Newton for putting hands on her in my book.