Thursday, December 14, 2006
Lawsuit seeks $6.3 million from Marcus Vick
A 17-year-old Christiansburg girl claims she had a sexual relationship with Vick from January 2004 through December 2005.
Former Virginia Tech star Marcus Vick, now a third-string rookie quarterback for the NFL's Miami Dolphins, is being sued for $6.3 million by a 17-year-old Christiansburg girl who claims she had a sexual relationship with Vick from January 2004 through December 2005.
The girl identifies herself in the lawsuit as the one who had sex with Vick on the January 2004 night that led to his arrest and conviction that year.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The lawsuit states that the girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was a 15-year-old honor student at Christiansburg High School when she first had sex with Vick in January 2004. The girl's grandmother is the other plaintiff. Vick is now 22.
According to the lawsuit, Vick and the girl continued to have sex numerous times through December 2005. The lawsuit also contends Vick offered her alcohol and marijuana at various times, and that the girl saw Vick smoking marijuana. The lawsuit also states Vick wanted her to have sex with other men.
"As a direct and proximate result of Marcus Vick's unlawful sexual intercourse with Jane Doe, the plaintiff suffered, and will continue to suffer, psychological trauma associated with the child sexual abuse perpetrated by defendant Marcus Vick," the lawsuit states.
Vick and two of his former teammates were convicted in May 2004 of three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for giving three underage girls liquor and encouraging them to strip. Vick had confessed to police that year that he had conensual sex with one of the girls. The girl who allegedly had sex with Vick invoked her Fifth Amendment rights when called to the stand at the trial.
After an appeal, Vick pleaded no contest in September 2004 to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was ordered by Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Bobby Turk to have no contact with the three teenage victims in the case. Vick was also ordered at the time of his February 2004 arrest not to have contact with the victims, according to the lawsuit.
Vick, the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons star and former Tech quarterback Michael Vick, was Tech's starting quarterback in 2005 but was kicked off the team by school officials last January for his on- and off-field behavior.





