The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the lady’s dad and mom, claims that Isaacs compelled himself on the 17-year-old lady after being provided alcohol by a Texas Tech booster.
A recently-filed lawsuit claims that Texas Tech sophomore Pop Isaacs sexually assaulted an underage lady within the Bahamas.
In keeping with FOX Information, the grievance says that the incident occurred this previous November, when Isaacs and the Purple Raiders had been on a crew journey to the Caribbean. Whereas there, they competed within the Battle 4 Atlantis basketball match.
Of their grievance, the dad and mom of the unidentified minor say that she was 17 years outdated on the time of the incident. Though Bahamian regulation units the age of consent as 16, the alleged sufferer was drunk on the time, such that she couldn’t have legally consented to have relations with Isaacs.
The lawsuit is in search of an estimated $1 million in damages.
Within the meantime, Isaacs seems to have confronted no vital penalties. On Friday, Texas Tech stated that Isaacs “stays in good standing,” with the college already having initiated a Title IX investigation into the alleged incident.
“Upon studying of the allegations, the matter was instantly and correctly reported to the college’s Title IX workplace,” Texas Tech stated in an announcement. “The Title IX workplace and its course of are exterior to and impartial from T.T.U. Athletics. The Title IX Workplace’s investigation into the allegations promptly commenced.”
The Texas Tech Athletics division reportedly “reached out to the Title IX workplace on two events and was knowledgeable each instances that, primarily based upon the knowledge, Pop Isaacs stays in good standing, and there’s no purpose to withhold him kind college actions, together with basketball competitors.”
A spokesperson for the college stated that the Title IX investigation remains to be underway and can proceed till it’s accomplished, “whatever the civil lawsuit.”
The lawsuit, provides FOX Information, was filed in Lubbock County courtroom on behalf of the lady’s dad and mom.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs say that, on the time, a Texas Tech booster had bought alcoholic drinks for Isaacs and one other teammate. Each gamers had been “in a room” with two ladies—ages 17 and 16—after which Isaacs and the 17-year-old went into one other room. Isaacs then purportedly assaulted the lady, who “tried to combat him off.”
In keeping with the lawsuit, “Isaacs deliberately, knowingly and recklessly engaged in unconsented bodily, offensive and sexual contact” with the lady, who solely discovered in regards to the incident in mid-December after she was made conscious that Isaacs “was bragging about having sexual activity along with her.”
The lady, the grievance states, “didn’t and couldn’t have supplied knowledgeable consent on account of an intoxicated state.”
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