Seven other massage therapists accused the Baltimore Ravens of Baltimore Justin Tucker of sexually inappropriate behavior, according to a report on Sunday, bringing the total number of women making allegations against the player to 16.
The newspaper Baltimore Banner said that the last wave of allegations against the winner of the 35 -year -old Super Bowl was similar to the statements made by nine other massage therapists who had already spoken of the botter.
Tucker strongly denied the reprehensible acts both in an article on X, formerly Twitter, and in an official declaration via his lawyers.
In the latest statements, Tucker is accused of having repeatedly exhibited his genitals and brushing some of the therapists with his fingers.
The 16 women who made complaints against Tucker worked in eight different spas in Baltimore.
The banner reported that two of the spas involved considered the behavior of Tucker so obvious that it had been prohibited to use the installation again.
The women involved say that the allegations extend from 2012, the recruit season of Tucker with the Ravens, in 2016.
In a release of January 30, Tucker said that the allegations against him were “unequivocal”.
“I have never been accused before for lack of no kind, and I have never been accused of having acted inappropriately in front of a massage therapist or during a massage therapy session or during other bodywork”, a- he said on X.
“I never received complaints from a massage therapist, I have never been dismissed from a massage therapy or bodywork session, and I was never informed that I was not welcome in any spa Or other business location, “he added, rejecting the banner of the report as” fodder of desperate tabloids “.
The National Football League has so far had no official measure against Tucker.
NFL commissioner Roger GOODELL said the claims before the Super Bowl examined the statements.
“These are obviously serious problems and (Tucker) takes this seriously like us,” said Goodell.
The case of Tucker echoes a similar scandal involving the quarter-rear of Cleveland Browns Deshaun Watson, accused of sexually inappropriate behavior of more than two dozen female massage therapists in 2021.
Watson, who was with the Texans of Houston when complaints emerged, denied reprehensible acts but then settled most of the civil proceedings brought by its accusers.
The allegations led him to miss the entire 2021 NFL season before being officially suspended for the first 11 games in the 2022 campaign and sentenced to a fine of $ 5 million.
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