Dallas police are investigating a Fort Worth woman’s claims that Cowboys QB Dak Prescott sexually assaulted her in 2017.
The incident is said to have taken place at or around Feb. 2, 2017, in the parking lot of Dallas strip club XTC Cabaret. It was reported to Dallas police on Tuesday, just one day after Prescott filed a $100 million countersuit accusing the Fort Worth woman of making a false sexual assault accusation in the hopes of extorting him.
“Dallas Police Department received a report of a sexual assault the complainant said occurred on Feb. 2, 2017, in the 8500 block of Stemmons Freeway,” a Dallas police spokesperson said, according to Dallas Morning News. “This is an ongoing investigation.”
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Prescott is alleged to have exposed his genitals and used “physical force” to sexually assault the woman despite verbal protests.
Prescott denied the allegations. His lawyer, Levi G. McCathern, insists that the encounter between the woman and Prescott was consensual.
Prosper (TX) police are also investigating Prescott’s claims that he is being extorted. An attorney representing Prescott met with police last week to discuss Prescott’s suggestion that he was a possible victim of “theft by coercion.” According to a police spokesperson, the case is “in the preliminary stages and considered an active investigation.”
Prescott’s accuser is planning to file a civil countersuit toward the Dallas QB, according to her attorney, Yoel Zehaie. Civil cases are not subject to the same statute of limitations as criminal ones. They also don’t require the same burden of proof as criminal trials.
“He kept changing his story,” Zahaie said of Prescott, per Pro Football Talk. “First, he said he didn’t know her. . . . And now he’s saying it’s consensual. . . . His counsel at first said he didn’t know her. Then he said, well, he wants more information to remember.”
The criminal statute of limitations for sex crimes against adults in the state of Texas varies based on the severity of the offense.
State law sets the criminal statute of limitations for sexual assault against adults at 10 years. By comparison, the civil statute of limitations in the same scenario is five years.