Texas assistant coach, girlfriend sued after pet monkey allegedly bites child
When information broke a few pet monkey reportedly belonging to the girlfriend of Texas assistant coach Jeff Banks, the story instantly turned one of the vital viral school soccer moments of the season. 5 weeks later, Banks and his girlfriend, Danielle Thomas, have had authorized motion taken in opposition to them.
The pair are reportedly being sued by Amy and Casey Clinkenbeard in Travis County District Courtroom in Austin, according to ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. The go well with was introduced forth on Thursday and seeks damages for gross negligence and defamation.
The lawsuit alleges that the Clinkenbeard’s child, recognized as C.C., was invited to attend a haunted home along with his two pals. After finishing the haunted home, the three had been taken to the yard the place the monkey was being saved, and instructed that it had been skilled to present excessive fives. When C.C. tried to get a excessive 5, he was bitten.
“As a substitute of giving a excessive 5, Danielle Thomas’s monkey aggressively bit down on C.C.’s hand and refused to let go,” says the lawsuit, per ESPN. “C.C. was pressured to manually pry the monkey’s jaw open. There was a lot blood that C.C. was unable to see the total extent of the harm.”
C.C. was handled by a health care provider, and afterward the physician and a neighbor confronted Thomas in regards to the incident. The go well with says Thomas expressed concern about having the ability to maintain her monkey, and offered the animal’s vaccination data.
“As a substitute of displaying any semblance of take care of an injured child, Danielle Thomas was as a substitute anxious in regards to the danger of her monkey being taken away. … Danielle Thomas said to the doctor that the monkey had bitten her earlier than and that she was nice, implying that the monkey subsequently didn’t have rabies.”
The go well with additionally says that Thomas made false claims about C.C. not having permission to be within the space the place the monkey was saved. She claimed by way of Twitter to have “no thought” that the child was within the yard, or that he had been bitten. Thomas has since deleted the tweets, and deactivated her account.
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