Steelers defensive lineman Cam Thomas is being sued by a woman who claims to be his former girlfriend. The woman, known only as Adrienne E., filed the lawsuit in Sand Diego and is suing for sexual battery, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud through intentional concealment, and negligence. The lawsuit also lists 10 other defendants, though, their names were unknown to the plaintiff at the time of the filing.

The gist of the lawsuit is that the woman Thomas used to date is suing him because she believes she contracted genital herpes from him, and that he knowingly concealed the STD. She also alleges that he assaulted her on multiple occasions. Some of the allegations include choking her until she passed out, hitting her, burning her with a flat iron, setting fire to her bed while she was in it, banging her head against a car window and dashboard, and attempting to throw her out a moving vehicle at 70 mph. Some pretty wild stuff.

Adam Kenner, a defense attorney for Thomas, says the accusations are false. “She’s angry, vindictive and mean because he has another woman, and a baby in his life.” Kenner went on to say that the assault allegations are baseless. “This guy is like a gentle giant. He would never lay a hand on her.” Another attorney for Thomas, Chris Morris elaborated. “She went out and had herself tested for herpes about a year into the relationship…and they maintained a sexual relationship for the next year. When they broke up she doesn’t end up testing positive for herpes till five months after they’d been apart,” said Morris. “He’s confident that it wasn’t him,” he added.

We can only wait and see what comes of these allegations, but one has to wonder why the police were never involved when the accusations are so serious. Here are the court documents. They are very…thorough.

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