Peyton Manning mentioned in lawsuit filed against Tennessee

Dr. Naughright filed a report with the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville at the time of the incident, but she asserted that university officials downplayed the incident in order to protect the hugely popular Manning, and that one official asked her to blame the incident (whatever it was about) on someone else. The women allege that UT’s athletics department has condoned a “hostile sexual environment” stretching back to the mid-1990s.

Highlighted in a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee for fostering a “hostile sexual environment” is a sexual assault complaint against Peyton Manning. “The incident was settled in 1997… conditioned on the victim leaving her job at the university”. Of course, the terms remained confidential.

King’s article claims that on February 29, 1996, while Naughright was examining Manning’s foot for a possible stress fracture, Manning placed his “naked testicles and rectum directly on her face with his penis on top of her head”. After she said no, she looked up to find Manning had lowered his trousers and put his privates in her face.

The focus of the six female plaintiffs is on five additional and more recent alleged incidents of sexual assault. The dining room ban was subsequently reduced to two weeks as well. Manning later described her in a book, Manning: A Father, a Son and His Football Legacy, as being “vulgar mouthed”. During a news update last night, ESPN avoided going into the details of what happened with Naughright, and 9News noted the development in a truncated AP story that skipped the nastiness, too.

According to the New York Daily News, citing court documents from the incident, Dr. Jamie Naughright later sued over the incident, and during the course of the lawsuit the other student Manning claimed to have been mooning at the time refuted Manning’s claim. USA Today originally obtained the documents in 2003 when reporting on the defamation suit.

Other people, who either don’t love Peyton or have no particular interest in him either way, will want to know the whole truth but that truth will never come out because no police investigation was conducted and a financial settlement eventually was reached. The NFL is investigating a December report from Al Jazeera America in which Manning is accused of involvement with a performance enhancing drug, human growth hormone.

King’s long, expansive report goes on to interject opinion, such as that Manning has duped the American public into thinking he’s a good guy in sports. There was enough bitterness remaining, however, after all that time, for Manning to test his strength as a celebrity and oppose his accuser all over again, thinking himself safe.

Manning, who is the league’s all-time leading passer, has been wavering between playing another year and retirement over the course of the last season and has yet to make up his mind. No, Manning is in the news because he was cited in a Title IX lawsuit against the University of Tennessee for alleged acts that he performed on a female trainer.