Texas assistant football coach Jeff Banks, girlfriend sued after monkey allegedly bites child.
The woman who had the baby that was bitten by a monkey has filed suit against Jeff and his girlfriend Andrea Mowery for $2 million in damages she claims during childbirth with complications to her brain injuries.
Texas assistant football coach Jeff Banks, his wife are being sued after a monkey allegedly bit a child. The lawsuit claims that the monkey was not properly contained and that it should have been in an enclosure with a fence around it.
A couple has filed a lawsuit against Texas assistant football coach Jeff Banks and his girlfriend, Danielle Thomas, alleging that Thomas’ monkey attacked their kid in Banks’ backyard on Halloween night.
Amy and Casey Clinkenbeard, as well as their kid, filed the case in Travis County District Court in Austin, Texas, on Thursday. It demands damages for slander and gross negligence.
The youngster, named as C.C., went trick-or-treating with two pals on Halloween and was invited to a haunted home, according to the complaint. According to the complaint, after finishing the haunted home, the youngster and his companions were escorted to Thomas’ backyard monkey. The youngster was informed the monkey was taught to give high-fives, according to the lawsuit.
“Instead of delivering a high five, Danielle Thomas’s monkey bit down on C.C.’s hand viciously and refused to release go,” according to the complaint, which ESPN received on Saturday. “C.C. was obliged to pry the monkey’s mouth open by hand. C.C. couldn’t see the entire nature of the damage since there was so much blood.”
A physician who lived nearby healed the child’s hand. According to the complaint, the doctor and another neighbor visited Thomas to talk about the event. “Additional information on the monkey’s vaccination status would be requested so that a suitable course of therapy for C.C. could be chosen,” the doctor informed Thomas, adding that a report would have to be made with the health department.
The complaint claims that “Danielle Thomas was more concerned about the possibility of her monkey being taken away than she was about exhibiting any kind of compassion for an injured youngster. Danielle Thomas told the doctor that the monkey had previously bitten her and that she was well, meaning that the animal was not infected with rabies.”
According to the complaint, Thomas failed to furnish the child’s family with the monkey’s immunization records.
In the complaint, Thomas is also referred to as “Pole Assassin,” her dancer stage name. She and the monkey previously appeared on “The Jerry Springer Show.”
According to the complaint, Thomas posted false remarks on social media in a “attempt to disparage C.C. and his family and protect the monkey,” claiming that the youngster didn’t have permission to be on the property and that she had advised her visitors not to access the area where the monkey resided.
Thomas tweeted immediately after the event in a series of tweets that have since been deleted: “I had a haunted home on one side that was gated off, and he had no authorization to get through it. I had no knowledge he walked into my back yard, and I had no concept what a bite was! Until a neighboring doctor advised me to take a little mouthful. No one from the parents has contacted me about it!”
“An 11 or 12 year old youngster should know better than to enter someone’s yard without permission, and should also be old enough to observe the regulations,” she said. “The regulations were that when you got to the gate, turn around and come out for candy, just like every other parent and kid!”
Thomas’ Twitter account has now been deactivated.
Banks recently finished his first season as an associate head coach, tight ends coach, and special teams coordinator for the Longhorns.
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Texas assistant football coach Jeff Banks, girlfriend sued after monkey allegedly bites child. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of a 4-year-old girl who claims their daughter was bitten by an African green monkey named Danielle Thomas. Reference: danielle thomas.
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