The documents recount E.M. telling police that after she had consensual sex with Player 1, he appeared to be on his cell phone texting. After a period of time, two of Player 1’s teammates entered the hotel room. E.M. said she was “initially comfortable for a little bit.” Then, after she went to the bathroom, she came out to find “approximately 7 or 8 guys in the [hotel] room with her.”
“E.M. recognized some of them as being Player 1’s friends from Jack’s Bar. Player 1 was not initially in the hotel room when the guys were there, and she did not know where he went.
E.M. later learned that he had ordered himself food—chicken wings. As the evening progressed, E.M. observed Player 1 on the bed, eating them. E.M. described Player 1 as being “in the background” after [specific sex act(s)].”
E.M. told police that the player told her to lie on the ground and she complied.
“E.M. explicitly told the men she was not comfortable with lying on a dirty hotel floor, so they placed a bed sheet on the ground for her,” Younan wrote, adding that E.M. told a detective “the group was making fun of her and laughing at her expense.”
One of the players, Player 1’s roommate, entered the room and began engaging in a specific sex act “without saying a word,” Younan wrote. “The group of guys were talking around her and about her, but not with her. The group of guys were saying things like ‘you do this, and you do this.’”
E.M. said the group started slapping her buttocks and that she had told them to stop “because they were slapping as hard as they could.”
E.M. told police she had felt like an object during the incident and that at one point she had gone to the bathroom and cried.
“The guys said, ‘oh she’s crying’ and then they would tell her to come back out ‘it is fine’. E.M. felt a degree of hesitation being there in the hotel room. E.M. describing it in the following way: ‘I don’t want to be doing this anymore,’ but also did not verbalize it to the guys inside the hotel room. E.M. would get dressed to leave and say she was leaving but was told to stay. The guys would state: ‘oh come on, don’t leave’ and then walk her back within the hotel room.”
E.M. told police that no one physically stopped her from leaving the room.
The players allegedly made three video recordings of E.M. during the incident. One video’s existence has not been previously reported.
In one six-second video recorded at about 3:25 am, an unidentified player asks E.M., “You’re okay with this”
“I’m okay with this,” she responds.
A second video, 12 seconds long, was filmed at 4:26 am.
“Are you recording me?” E.M. said on the video. “Okay, good. It was all consensual. You are so paranoid. Holy. I enjoyed it. It was fine. It was all consensual. I am so sober, that’s why I can’t do this right now.”
Lawyers representing several of the players
showed TSN those videos in the summer, arguing that any sexual contact between players and E.M. had been consensual.