The team had initially appeared to stand by Matt Araiza but reversed course Saturday as more disturbing allegations from a civil lawsuit came out.
The team announced the news late Saturday, just two days after a civil lawsuit was filed alleging that Araiza, together with two of his former San Diego State University teammates, gang-raped a 17-year-old high school student at an off-campus Halloween party last year.
“The facts of the incident are not what they are portrayed in the lawsuit or in the press. I look forward to quickly setting the record straight,” Araiza said in aAraiza was also absent from practice Saturday, according to ESPN. The lawsuit singled Araiza out specifically for allegedly leading the teen into a room where other men had been waiting and who allegedly then “took turns raping her for an hour and a half” as she slipped in and out of consciousness.
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