Ex-Dolphin Xavien Howard accused of sending explicit photo to teenager following abortion row

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former Miami Dolphins star cornerback Xavier Howard sent a teenager a sexually explicit photo of the young man's mother because she refused to have an abortion, according to a new court filing.

The allegation was made Thursday in a lawsuit filed last year by a woman who is not the teen's mother. This woman accuses Howard, 30, of secretly recording them having sex and then sharing the recordings with others. She says Howard also shared, without consent, sex tapes that she agreed to make.

The woman's lawyers want the teen, who is now 18, added as a plaintiff against Howard, who was released this offseason by the Dolphins in an effort to save money and is a free agent. The teen is the son of another woman who lawyers say also had a relationship with Howard and was recorded having sex with him. This woman didn't sue Howard.

“Xavien Howard operates through intimidation and force. Wherever he goes, destruction follows and the lives of two individuals have been irrevocably altered because of him,” attorneys Cam Justice and Adriana Alcade wrote in their filing.

“Mr. Howard denies these allegations and hopes to prevail in court,” Howard's attorney, Ted Craig, said in a brief statement.

In the original lawsuit, filed under the pseudonym Jane Doe, a woman says she dated Howard for several months in 2022. A few months after their breakup, she received an Instagram message from a woman who said Howard had sent her sexually explicit videos of himself having sex with various women, including Doe.

That woman told Doe that Howard sent her the videos because she rejected his sexual advances. In April 2023, another woman contacted Doe, saying that Howard had also sent her videos because she too had rejected his advances.

Doe said she once consented to Howard recording their sexual activity, but other videos were made in secret without her consent.

In the latest filing to add the teen as a plaintiff, he claims that in September 2022, her mother and Howard were arguing over her refusal to have an abortion. The woman says Howard is the child's father. The lawyers claim Howard sent the teen a photo of his mother engaging in sex “as part of his ongoing crusade to degrade and humiliate” the woman and caused “severe emotional distress” to the teen. teenager.

“Howard’s conduct was outrageous (and) exceeded all bounds of decency,” Justice and Alcade wrote in their filing.

Howard played eight seasons with the Dolphins, who signed him out of Baylor in 2016. He intercepted 29 passes in 100 games and was selected to four Pro Bowls.

Howard's production has declined over the past two seasons due to injuries. He played through groin injuries in 2022 and was limited to 13 games in 2023 due to hip and foot injuries.