Georgia football WR indicted by grand jury on child cruelty and battery charges

wide receiver Rara Thomas, dismissed Georgia football Team, who was arrested a second time on domestic violence charges on Aug. 1, was indicted by a grand jury in Clarke County Superior Court last week on two misdemeanor charges of second-degree child cruelty and battery/domestic violence. .

The counts stem from an early morning incident on July 26 when police responded to a domestic violence call involving Thomas’ daughter in the 300 block of Mill Creek Way.

A police incident report was not released following the arrest “due to the nature of the investigation involving a juvenile victim,” but details are included in last week’s indictment.

As part of cruelty to children, Thomas is accused of “causing brutal physical pain to said victim by striking said victim while beating her mother” who was holding him down.

The indictment states that in one of the battery/domestic violence charges, Thomas intentionally caused “a bloody nose, a bloody lip crack, a scratch on his chin, and a bruise on his neck” by “punching the child’s mother in the face.”

In the other charge of battery/domestic violence, the indictment states that Thomas “battered the white mother of the child, his daughter, while she was in her arms” and deliberately caused the child to “graze her forehead.”

Thomas is scheduled to appear in court on December 16.

The Mississippi State transfer was rejected during the preseason after meeting with Georgia coach Kirby Smart after serving four days in jail.

Thomas, of Eufaula, Ala., was arrested in January 2023 for an incident with a woman in a UGA dormitory, shortly after joining the Georgia program. While the felony charge of false imprisonment was dismissed, he entered the pretrial diversion program for the battery/domestic violence charge.

Colbie Young, another Georgia wide receiver, was suspended indefinitely after being arrested Oct. 8 on misdemeanor charges of battery and assault on an unborn child. The female accuser in the case, Young’s ex-girlfriend, wants the charges dismissed. According to Young’s attorney, Kim Stephens.

Stephens said he first contacted the Solicitor’s Office on Oct. 14.

“Colbie Young did not commit any act of violence against me or my unborn child, including but not limited to simple battery or assault on an unborn child,” he said in his statement.

Stephens wants the charges dismissed and Young, a Miami transfer, allowed to continue full team activities and play in games.

“The legal process needs to play itself out,” Smart said Monday. “We want to support Colbie as much as we can. We continue to provide access to our facilities and the support resources we have, such as Rankin (Smith Academic Center), training room, mental health, weight room. But before we can do anything, the legal process needs to work itself out.”

This article first appeared in the Athens Banner-Herald: Dismissed Georgia football WR Rara Thomas indicted by grand jury