Lawyer Gloria Allred is accusing the NFL of allowing a player to participate in a football game after he was accused of rape.
Allred said she sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell “advising him that we represent a young woman who made a police report last Saturday, September 20, 2014, alleging that an NFL player on an NFL team had raped her that morning.”
According to Allred, who does not name the victim or the player, the accused player was summoned by the police for questioning about the matter, but when he showed up, he was “accompanied by a representative of his NFL team.”
He was allowed to play the following day, Allred said.
Allred said she asked the NFL whether the alleged rape was reported to them “and if they approved this accused individual’s playing in the game notwithstanding the allegations that had been made against him.”
Allred wants a response from the NFL by next week, she said. In addition to the individual alleged rape case, Allred wants Goodell to to ”clarify the NFL’s policy regarding allowing a player to play while serious allegations of criminal wrongdoing are pending with law enforcement.”
