Content warning: This story contains details that might be sensitive to readers. Prosecutors cited witness testimony that Matt Araiza was not present during an alleged gang rape. He was also not visible in any of the videos recovered from the night. More:
Araiza, a former punter at San Diego State, also was not visible in any of the videos recovered from the night in question, according to audio from a meeting between San Diego deputy district attorney Trisha Amador and the woman who filed a civil lawsuit last year against Araiza and two of his former Aztecs teammates.
Amador said Araiza is"alleged to have left the party at 12:30" and was not"even at the party anymore" when some of the alleged gang rape occurred at 1:30 a.m. PT, according to the available video time stamps from the encounter that were found by the DA. The lawsuit states that Araiza, who was 21 at the time, led the girl to the side of the house and told her to perform oral sex on him before they had sexual intercourse. According to the lawsuit, Araiza then took her inside the home, where at least three other men, including the other two defendants named in the suit -- former Aztecs teammates Zavier Leonard and Nowlin Ewaliko -- were located, and that she was repeatedly raped for about 1½ hours.
The videos recorded from the party were described as taking place inside the house in two separate rooms, with about nine short clips of"point of view videos" taken from the perspective of those engaging in the acts, recovered from multiple devices. Some of them are in Snapchat format.
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