A massage therapist has travel guardant alleging improper behaviour by Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, adding to six specified accusations past week.
“I consciousness vindicated,” the erstwhile Baltimore-based massage therapist told The Baltimore Sun.
The 2015 incidental the unnamed pistillate described had akin hallmarks of different therapists’ experience, successful which Tucker allegedly exposed his genitals, brushed the women with his penis and near what looked similar ejaculate connected the massage tables, The Baltimore Banner reported Thursday.
The alleged behaviour got him banned from astatine slightest 2 spas, and the therapists refused to enactment with him again oregon chopped their sessions abbreviated aft the incidents, which took spot betwixt 2012 and 2016.
Since past week’s archetypal report, three much therapists person travel forward, bringing the full to nine, The Baltimore Banner reported Saturday. They worked astatine five high-end spas and wellness centers. Two spas told the outlet they had banned Tucker from booking massages.
One of the therapists said she had astir gone nationalist backmost successful 2015 but had feared retaliation. It was not wide connected Sunday whether that was the aforesaid pistillate who besides spoke to The Baltimore Sun. All the women stayed anonymous.
“It started with him exposing himself to me,” the pistillate told the outlet, adjacent though she had asked Tucker to deterioration underwear.
Tucker had been her lawsuit connected respective occasions astatine 2 abstracted spas. The therapist, present 37 and surviving successful West Virginia, said erstwhile she told her manager astir that and different conduct, she was told Tucker would beryllium assigned to idiosyncratic else. But erstwhile she learned her replacement would beryllium a 19-year-old massage therapist, she said she continued moving connected Tucker to support her colleague.
But she said she chopped the prima jock disconnected erstwhile helium began touching her limb during a session.
“He laid look down, and his manus reached up connected my interior thigh,” she told The Baltimore Sun.
That’s erstwhile she walked retired and submitted a written connection to her employer. She said she was fired soon after. She did not contention her termination oregon spell nationalist with her allegations due to the fact that “it would beryllium maine against the king of Baltimore,” she told the newspaper.
In a connection past week, Tucker said helium had “never earlier been accused of misconduct of immoderate kind,” with massage therapists oregon immoderate different bodywork, and dismissed the archetypal allegations arsenic “desperate tabloid fodder.”
“Justin’s connection remains the 1 helium posted connected X connected Thursday,” a rep for Tucker’s cause told The Baltimore Sun.
The NFL has said the allegations were connected their radar; the Ravens said they were monitoring the situation.
“We archetypal became alert of the allegations from the newsman investigating this communicative arsenic they were not antecedently shared with the NFL,” league spokesperson Brian McCarthy said successful a statement. “We instrumentality immoderate allegation earnestly and will look into the matter.”
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