Fourth choice of the 2017 Draft, Josh Jackson has disappeared from the radar for a year, and he is more talked about in the Miscellaneous column. Violence on the public highway, consumption of marijuana in the presence of one’s young daughter, insulting an officer… The list is long, and it has just been supplemented by a complaint for sexual assault, assault and battery and orchestration of an attempt of armed robbery.
According to the Kansas City Star, the case would date from February 2022, at the time of the Super Bowl. Passing through New York, when he had just been transferred from Detroit to Sacramento, Josh Jackson would have participated in a party organized at the home of Andre Drummond. After the evening, and visits to New York clubs, he allegedly invited a woman to join him in a hotel. The latter would have accepted, thinking that this was the place for the rest of the evening.
According to her statement, Josh Jackson was alone, but she joined him in the bedroom. The following ? The complainant explains that she fell asleep after a drunken evening on Josh Jackson’s bed, and she was woken up while he tore her clothes to rape her. According to the complaint, the victim then shouted to prevent Josh Jackson from continuing, before passing out.
Josh Jackson is not named in the first report
She left the next day and that’s when she received threatening messages from a man, who accused her of stealing… Josh Jackson’s watch. Then later in the day, two women entered her apartment to threaten her with a weapon before being subdued by the security service of her building. For the victim, it was Josh Jackson who orchestrated this break-in.
The case is complex, and the Kansas City Star obtained the transcript of a complaint filed at that time. Josh Jackson would not be cited, and the complainant, who was granted permission to remain anonymous, would only speak of a tall person (2m05), assuring that she “ could be a victim of sexual assault ” an officer wrote in the complaint, forwarded to the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit.
On the other hand, the newspaper specifies that the police would have intervened at the complainant’s home at the time of an attempted break-in by two women, who turn out to be two sisters, and that the latter were prohibited, during the investigation, from to approach the complainant.
For the moment, the player has not spoken about this matter, and according to his lawyer, he has never been summoned by the courts. “Mr. Jackson will vigorously contest these allegations in court and looks forward to the full truth being revealed.”did he declare.
