Three former New Mexico State basketball gamers have been charged with a number of felonies following an investigation by the New Mexico Legal professional Common’s workplace right into a hazing scandal that rocked this system final season, in accordance with KTSM-TV. Expenses for former Aggies Kim Aiken Jr., Physician Bradley and Deshawndre Washington embrace legal sexual contact and false imprisonment in reference to final season’s alleged abuse, which additionally sparked a pair of lawsuits towards the college.
New Mexico State halted its season final February with 5 video games remaining amid an investigation into the hazing allegations. The problems led to first-year coach Greg Heiar’s firing and a complete overhaul of this system below new coach Jason Hooten, who was employed from Sam Houston.
In a single alleged incident described in a 28-page lawsuit reported by KTSM-TV in April, Washington grabbed teammate William “Deuce” Benjamin’s scrotum in a resort room in entrance of a gaggle of ladies. One other allegation claimed Aiken and Bradley ripped again a bathe curtain on teammate Shakiru Odunewu and compelled him to do squats whereas slapping his buttocks and videotaping the encounter. In yet one more allegation, Odunewu says he was attacked and sodomized by the defendants throughout November bus journey to a street recreation.Â
New Mexico State settled the lawsuit with Benjamin and Odunewu in June. This week, a second lawsuit was introduced by different members of final 12 months’s staff, in accordance with KTSM-TV. Of the trio of charged former gamers, solely Bradley landed at a brand new college as he transferred to Nicholls State. He was suspended Wednesday due to Title IX violations dedicated at New Mexico State, in accordance with the Nicholls Value.