The world was just praising the “PUNT GOD” Matt Araiza for winning the Bills punting job.
That all changed today when he was accused of running a train on a woman while at San Diego State. If you aren’t familiar with what a train is.
To run train (or run a train) refers to when multiple men have s*x with a woman one after the other, with or without consent.
Here are the details of how the woman says the train was not consensual.
A civil lawsuit filed Thursday in state court accuses three past and present San Diego State University football players — including a top punter now in the NFL — of gang raping a 17-year-old girl last year at an off-campus party.
Matt Araiza, 22, whose powerful and precision kicking in college earned him the moniker “Punt God,” was accused of having s*x with the minor outside the home and then bringing her inside to a room where she was repeatedly raped. The lawsuit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, alleges that the then-high school senior went in and out of consciousness but remembers moments as the men took turns assaulting her.
Araiza’s lawyer, Kerry Armstrong, said he hadn’t reviewed the complaint but called the rape accusation false. He said his investigator spoke to witnesses from the party who contradict the allegations against Araiza.
“It’s a shakedown because he’s now with the Buffalo Bills,” Armstrong said, adding, “There is no doubt in my mind” that Araiza didn’t rape the teen.
She did go to the police about what happened and when the cops tried to catch Araiza in a confession, here is what happened.
At the request of police, she made pretext calls — recorded by detectives — with the men named in the lawsuit whom police “had determined were present in the room when the rape occurred.” Araiza, the complaint alleged, confirmed on a call in late October that they had s*x and recommended she get tested for a sexually transmitted disease. Later in the conversation, she asked him, “And did we have actual s*x?” Araiza allegedly changed his tone and replied, “This is Matt Araiza. I don’t remember anything that happened that night.”
The Bills have not cut the Punt God at the moment but say they are monitoring the situation.
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