MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (TND) — Xavien Howard, a former Miami Dolphins star, is accused of sharing specific photographs and movies of ladies, and in some unspecified time in the future texting sexual photographs of 1 sufferer to her son, a lawsuit states.
In Might, two victims filed the lawsuit in Broward County, Fla., alleging Howard, 30, launched the specific content material to “humiliate them and trigger emotional misery,” courtroom paperwork obtained by Native 10 Information mentioned.
Based on the report, Howard had been seeing one of many victims recognized within the lawsuit as “Jane Doe” in 2016, the place they began to have an unique relationship. Nevertheless, the connection resulted in July of that yr, and in September 2016, Jane Doe mentioned she acquired a message on Instagram from an unidentified girl claiming she had been despatched movies from Howard of “him having intercourse with varied girls.”
Jane Doe “immediately recognized herself” within the movies, based on the lawsuit, after which acknowledged she reached out to Howard to study why the movies had been shared, to which he informed her, “he shared the movies” to “make her mad as a result of she didn’t need to have intercourse with him,” the courtroom paperwork alleged.
She admits that she was “sexually concerned” with Howard within the lawsuit, “however as soon as she spurned his advances, Howard circulated sexually specific movies of her—with out her consent— to the general public.” Jane Doe says Howard filmed and took photographs of her whereas she was participating in intercourse acts with him with out her information.
The sufferer’s son, recognized as John Doe within the lawsuit, who was a minor on the time and is the opposite plaintiff within the lawsuit, acknowledged that Howard went on a “warpath” towards his mom and despatched him disturbing content material whereas Howard and his mom had been courting in 2022.
“John Doe is the son of one other girl (hereinafter known as “Mom”) Howard turned sexually concerned with, who after impregnating her, demanding that she have an abortion, and her refusing, went on a warpath towards her,” based on the lawsuit that was shared by Local10 Information.
Sharing of the content material with out their consent, because the plaintiff’s declare within the lawsuit, was an invasion of their privateness and so they had been sexually cyber-harassed.
Sexual cyberharassment or “revenge porn” is prohibited in Florida and has been since 2015. State legislation says it’s thought of the nonconsensual distribution of sexually specific photographs or movies of one other particular person with the intent of inflicting the sufferer emotional misery.
Jane Doe is searching for judgment for damages over $50,000, based on the paperwork obtained by Native 10 Information, and neither victims have pursued felony expenses.