Bengals Are Identified in Rape Suit

Attorneys for a Spokane, Wash., woman on Tuesday released the names of 20 current and former Cincinnati Bengals accused in a civil lawsuit of raping her or standing by while she was assaulted nearly two years ago.

The complaint says the plaintiff, identified only as Victoria C and described as a 98-pound mother of four, “was brutally and sadistically raped . . . over two hours, by 13 to 15 Bengal players who were two to three times her size, on the ‘team floor’ ” in a hotel on Oct. 3, 1990. The Bengals were in Washington to play the Seahawks.

Twelve men are accused of rape in the complaint, which seeks unspecified compensatory damages for pain and suffering, and to cover costs of medical and psychological care. Reggie Rembert, Rodney Holman, Eric Thomas, Barney Bussey, Tim McGee, Eric Ball, James Francis and Harold Green were served with summonses last weekend.

Also named in the complaint are Lewis Billups, David Fulcher, Rickey Dixon, Craig Ogletree, Ickey Woods, Bernard Clark, Leo Barker, Craig Taylor, Solomon Wilcots, Mitchell Price, Eddie Brown and Carl Carter. Summonses will be served on them “wherever they can be located” by the U.S. Marshals Service, said Victoria Vreeland, the attorney for Victoria C.

Accused in the complaint of rape are Dixon, Holman, Thomas, Bussey, McGee, Woods, Billups, Clark, Fulcher, Francis and Ogletree, Vreeland said. Rembert also is accused of rape, but his name was inadvertently dropped from that section of the complaint, Vreeland said. An amendment will be filed, correcting the clerical error and restoring Rembert’s name, she said.

“With the naming of certain individual players, the cloud over the entire team no longer exists,” the Bengals said in a statement.