According to a report by CBSSports.com, Rams’ running back Steven Jackson has been accused of assaulting a former girlfriend, who also happened to be nine months pregnant at the time.
Jackson’s girlfriend at the time, Supriya Harris, said in a complaint filed with the Las Vegas Police Department that an argument in March of 2009 became physical and according to the complaint Jackson pushed her to the ground repeatedly.
According to the report, Harris says she was bleeding from wounds as a result of the argument. The report states that Harris gave birth to her son soon after the alleged incident.
She also says in the report that she left Jackson after he again threatened to physically beat her.
As with similar reports, I’ll stress first and foremost that Jackson has not been convicted of anything yet so let’s not jump to conclusions. There are a lot of greedy people in the world looking for cash settlements and their 15 minutes of fame, so maybe Jackson is innocent in all of this.
But if he is guilty, here’s hoping he’s punished by the full extent of the law and suspended by the NFL. There’s no excuse for hitting a woman, especially one that is pregnant.
Guilty or not guilty, what else could go wrong for the Rams? Record-wise, they were the worst team in the league last year, have little to no direction and now their star player is being accused of assaulting a woman. Fantastic.
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