Up to date Aug. 5: Josh Sills was once discovered no longer accountable of rape and kidnapping fees. The lineman was once additionally got rid of from the commissioner’s exempt listing.
“I’ve completed not anything mistaken, and am satisfied that was once confirmed nowadays,” Sills mentioned.
The Eagles launched a remark:
“We’re mindful that the felony topic involving Josh Sills has been adjudicated and he was once discovered no longer accountable. The group has monitored the location. The NFL has got rid of him from the Commissioner’s Exempt Checklist and he’ll go back to the group’s lively roster.”
Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Josh Sills, 25, has been indicted on kidnapping and rape fees by means of an Ohio grand jury lower than two weeks ahead of his group is ready to play within the Tremendous Bowl, consistent with Ohio Lawyer Common Dave Yost and Guernsey County Sheriff Jeffrey D. Paden.
[Update]: Consistent with a Guernsey County Sheriff’s Administrative center Incident File bought by means of Deadspin, the sufferer instructed police that she had identified Josh Sills for 7-8 years and went to school with him. On Dec. 5, 2019, the sufferer said Sills dropped her and her cousin off on the cousin’s space. When the cousin were given out of the car, Sills grabbed the sufferer by means of the arm and pulled her again into the truck. The sufferer alleged that Sills grabbed her by means of her ponytail and attempted to kiss her, even though she stored telling him to prevent and he endured. Some other car pulled up in the back of the truck the sufferer and Sills had been in, and when Sills noticed the lighting, he grabbed the sufferer by means of the neck and threw her down at the seat, mountain climbing on most sensible of her so nobody may see them within the truck.
The sufferer additional instructed police that, as soon as the good friend within the different automotive went inside of her cousins’ house, Sills attempted to take off her pants, unbuttoning them and, “touching me down there.” The sufferer alleges she stored telling Sills to prevent, to go away her on my own, and let her cross inside of. When she was once in spite of everything in a position to get Sills off of her, he allegedly grabbed her by means of the neck and pulled her on most sensible of him when he sat up. Consistent with the sufferer, Sills mentioned “she was once doing this and was once no longer leaving till she did this.” Sills then allegedly took his pants off and shoved her face down on him. The sufferer instructed police that, for roughly 20 mins the male grabbed her by means of the hair and compelled her head up and down till “he did his factor.” The sufferer instructed police she “spit it again on him and requested him to delight let her cross,” however Sills attempted to kiss her once more and requested her “Will you communicate to me once more after his?” When the sufferer confident Sills she would, he allegedly mentioned, “OK, that’s positive.” The sufferer mentioned she then were given out of the automobile and bumped into the home.
Consistent with the officer who wrote the incident record, the sufferer was once given a CT scan by means of a neighborhood health facility to test for strangulation accidents, as she said again and again that Sills stored grabbing her by means of the pinnacle and neck. The nurse treating the sufferer instructed police that she found out bruising behind the sufferer’s throat in addition to her internal lip and in the back of her proper ear.
Sills has no longer been convicted of the fees in opposition to him. Deadspin reached out to Sills, the Eagles, and the NFL for remark. The Eagles supplied the next remark:
“The group is conscious about the felony topic involving Josh Sills. We’ve got been in conversation with the league place of job and are within the means of accumulating additional information. We haven’t any additional remark presently.”
We will be able to replace this piece if we listen again from Sills, his representatives, or the NFL.
Up to now, the NFL has no longer made a remark on Sills’ eligibility for the Tremendous Bowl LVII in opposition to the Kansas Town Chiefs or whether or not an NFL investigation into the allegations in opposition to Sills is underway or imminent. Lately, the NFL has tried to fight allegations of home abuse and sexual violence by means of gamers by means of teaching them concerning the dynamics of abuse via its closely criticized “No Extra” marketing campaign.
Replace: The NFL mentioned Sills was once positioned at the Commissioner Exempt listing. Whilst at the listing, the OL can’t take part in follow, or video games — which might imply the Tremendous Bowl — or go back and forth with the Eagles.
Sills is ready to seem in courtroom on Feb. 16. Sills, an undrafted loose agent, simplest seemed in a single sport for the Eagles this season.
