Physical beatings and threats to RAPE his sister: The shocking extent of bullying Jonathan Martin allegedly suffered from Dolphins teammates he tried to befriend
A lawyer for Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin revealed further shocking details on Thursday about the bullying he suffered at the hands of teammates.
Martin walked out on the Dolphins last week after reportedly suffering a catalog of abuse, including a racist voice mail message from fellow player Richie Incognito, who has been suspended.
Lawyer David Cornwell said in a statement that along with Incognito calling Martin a "half-n*****' in a voicemail, another unidentified player threatened to rape Martin's sister.
Part of the violent and vulgar threat, directed at Martin's sister, included the words: ' She loves me. I am going to f*** her without a condom. '
Martin's lawyer did not specify to ESPN whether the words were said to Martin or if it was a voice-mail or text. He also claimed that the player had suffered a 'malicious physical attack'.
The statement continues: ' Jonathan endured harassment that went far beyond the traditional locker room hazing. For the entire season-and-a-half that he was with the Dolphins, he attempted to befriend the same teammates who subjected him to the abuse with the hope that doing so would end the harassment.
'This is a textbook reaction of victims of bullying. Despite these efforts, the taunting continued. Beyond the well-publicized voice mail with its racial epithet, Jonathan endured a malicious physical attack on him by a teammate, and daily vulgar comments such as the quote at the bottom. These facts are not in dispute.'
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Proving that bullies never die, they just grow up to bully other people at work, at home, etc... I hope that Martin will be ok!
As far as Incognito goes, fire him! There is no excuse for this! This is not a team player!
And I'm not surprised, at all! It's football, right? Where the Michael Vicks of the world are Heroes!
Ugh.
So-called professional sports is no longer truly sports, it's entertainment and is run and controlled by corporations whom want to maximize every cent of profit they can out of it.
Want to see real sports, try the high school level but even there it has been contaminated by greed.