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Former San Francisco
49ers defensive end Ray McDonald
has been charged with rape by
intoxication, and current 49ers
linebacker Ahmad Brooks has been
charged with sexual battery of the
same woman on the same night,
prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The felony indictment against
McDonald, marking the latest ***
abuse ******* to embroil the National
Football League, stems from a
December 2014 incident at his home,
according to the Santa Clara County
District Attorney's Office.
The eight-year NFL veteran faces up
to eight years in prison if convicted of
the rape charge. McDonald was
arrested on Wednesday and released
after posting $100,000 bail. His
arraignment was set for Sept. 25, the
prosecutor's office said in a
statement.
Brooks, 31, was charged separately
with misdemeanor sexual battery
stemming from an alleged assault that
occurred the same evening against
the same woman McDonald is
accused of raping. Brooks' charge
carries a maximum sentence of six
months in jail.
Prosecutors did not immediately
furnish copies of the indictment
returned this week or other charging
documents and declined to detail the
circumstances of the offenses.
McDonald has said he and his accuser
had a consensual sexual encounter.
McDonald and Brooks are the latest of
a string of current and former pro
football players accused of domestic
abuse or *** crimes, bringing the NFL
under intense scrutiny and criticism
for the off-field behavior of its
athletes.
In July, NFL free agent safety C.J.
Spillman was charged with sexual
assault in a September incident at a
Dallas-area hotel when he was
playing for the Cowboys.
The month before, Hall of Fame
defensive tackle Warren Sapp was
charged in Las Vegas with three
counts of domestic abuse months after
his arrest for soliciting a prostitute.
The grand jury that indicted McDonald
declined to charge him with felony
false imprisonment and other
domestic violence charges stemming
from a May 2015 incident in which he
was accused of assaulting his ex-
fiancee as she held their 2-month-old
child, the district attorney's office
said.
Two days after that incident, after
posting bail, McDonald was arrested
again for violating a restraining order
by visiting her residence. The grand
jury did indict him on a charge of
breaching that restraining order, which
carries a maximum penalty of one
year in jail, the prosecutor's office
said.
McDonald was released by the 49ers
in December, after he was named as a
possible suspect in the rape case. The
Chicago Bears signed him in March
but released him in May after the
arrest involving his former fiancee.
Neither the NFL nor the 49ers had an
immediate comment about
McDonald's indictment.
In a statement about the charges
against Brooks, 49ers General
Manager Trent Baalke said the team
takes any charge against its players
seriously and was "in communication
with the NFL." He said Brooks would
not participate in Saturday's
preseason game against the Denver
Broncos, and the team sent him home
from Colorado to California.
 
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