As a sports fan in 2016, you probably read the headline and thought, “There’s nothing you can show me in this day and age that will horrify me, for I am numb to the terrible things athletes do away from the field.” Understandable, but you should still brace yourself.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, former NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield has been charged with raping a developmentally delayed woman who came to his home to interview for a nanny job in April 2015. The details of the accusation are about as gross as it gets.
According to a Morgan Hill police report, Stubblefield contacted the then-31-year-old woman, who officials said has a “severe speech impediment,” last year through Sittercity.com to see if she was interested in a job as a nanny. They set up an interview for the next day at his home.
The interview lasted about 20 minutes, police said, then the woman left. Minutes later, she received a text message from Stubblefield saying he wanted to pay her for her time that day, the report said. She went back to the house where Stubblefield picked her up, carried her to a room, raped her and forced her to “orally copulate him,” the report said.
Stubblefield gave her $80 and let her go, the report said. The woman drove straight to the Morgan Hill Police Department and reported being assaulted by a man named “Dana.”
He is charged with rape, rape of a victim incapable of giving consent, oral copulation, oral copulation with a victim incapable of giving consent and false imprisonment, according to the criminal complaint.
The attorney for Stubblefield denied the charges and says his client passed a lie detector test.
Stubblefield has a history of violence against women, which include charges of assaulting his wife in 2000 and allegations that he tried to hit his finance with his car in 2009.
