A couple of weeks ago Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was hit with a restraining order by his Fiancée and mother of his two kids Candace Williams. Miss Williams claimed that Suggs had abused her. There are no police reports, so until we got more info I ignored it until more facts came out.
Now Miss Williams has brought a 70 million dollar lawsuit against Suggs. I am not exactly sure if you can sue for abuse that you never reported to the police, but that is what she has done. Here are some of her accusations courtesy of the Baltimore Sun:
Williams wrote that the altercation occurred about 5:15 p.m. Nov. 29, in the presence of Suggs’ cousin and Suggs’ best friend. Suggs told her he had two tickets for the Ravens game that evening against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Baltimore that she had requested, but became angry that he did not know who the tickets were for, according to court records. She said that they stopped yelling and teased each other, and she believed the argument was over.
Williams said she teased Suggs while he was in the bathroom. As she went to close the door, he “stiff-armed the door,” according to Williams.
She said Suggs said she had hurt his arm and began yelling obscenities at her, and Williams said she spat on his chest. She wrote that she heard one of Suggs’ friends, who was present in the home, say, “Oh no, Sizz, come on, don’t do that.” When she turned around, according to her complaint, he knocked her to the ground and sat on top of her, grabbing her neck and holding an open bottle of bleach over her.
Williams wrote that Suggs used an obscenity and said he was going to “drown [her] with this bleach.”
Here is a very important point from the Baltimore police:
Lt. Rob McCullough, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said that protective orders are typically initiated after an accuser calls police and is instructed by the investigating officers to seek a restraining order. But police had no record of any emergency calls at Suggs’ home in the past week. McCullough said many accusers seek a police report to justify the protective order.
I do my best not to jump to conclusions in he said/she said cases, but when you don’t go to the police first, but instead go straight for 70 million that makes me suspicious of your motives.
She states she didn’t go to the police because of the kids, but if you are going to make accusations the kids are going to be affected either way, so that doesn’t make any sense to me.
Are we saying it is ok to allow someone who threatened to “drown you bleach” go free as long as he pays you 70 million dollars?
I am not saying she is lying what I am saying her way of getting justice is very “Tiger Mistress Style” which I am against.
If someone is doing a criminal act send them to jail, because the message we are sending is I rather get paid than put someone violent behind bars.
Once again I feel like I live in a Bizarro society sometimes.
Thanks to thenflchick.com for providing us with pictures of Suggs and Miss Williams and she also has more on the story.
