Court documents: In revenge, former Dolphin Xavien Howard sent the boy sexual photos of his mother

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Friday, June 7, 2024 | 5:27 p.m.

According to a new court filing, former Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard sent a boy sexually explicit content from his mother because she refused to have an abortion.

The document, filed Thursday in Broward County Circuit Court by attorneys Cam Justice and Adriana Alcalde, requested that the then-minor be allowed to sue Howard in an ongoing case involving the NFL free agent who allegedly shared sex videos without consent. Judge Keathan Frink must decide whether to include him in the suit.

In May 2023, a woman who dated Howard the previous year sued the four-time Pro Bowler after learning through Instagram that Howard had made sexually explicit videos of her and shared them with other people, according to the lawsuit. The woman, who had sent her a direct message, said Howard sent videos of himself having sex with multiple women “to make her angry because she didn’t want to have sex with him.”

The woman who filed the lawsuit appeared in some of the clips. In October 2022, her lawyers sent Howard a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he immediately stop sharing the explicit content with anyone else. Since the lawsuit was filed, Howard’s lawyers have tried multiple times to dismiss the case, even saying the woman had previously asked him for a multimillion-dollar payment.

In the lawsuit filed Thursday, lawyers said Howard acted “through intimidation and violence” and exhibited “a similar pattern of behavior” toward several people.

Howard’s attorney had not responded to the Miami Herald’s request for comment as of Thursday evening.

Cycle of toxic behavior?

The John Doe, who is suing under a pseudonym because he was a minor at the time, is the son of a woman Howard had a relationship with in Broward County, Florida, the filing says. When the boy’s mother became pregnant in September 2022, Howard demanded that she have an abortion. She refused.

As a result, the lawyers claim, Howard “went on the warpath against her.” In revenge, Howard texted the boy sexually explicit photos of his mother, “causing him significant emotional distress,” the lawsuit says.

“This behavior is abhorrent, especially when you send something like this to a child,” Alcalde told the Miami Herald.

Howard had the boy’s number because his mother sometimes texted the former Dolphins player from his cellphone, the documents say. When she noticed the explicit content, she deleted the messages, but her son found them on his iCloud account.

“Howard’s conduct was outrageous, exceeded all bounds of decency, and was and is considered abhorrent and totally intolerable in a civilized society,” the filing states.

Alcalde told the Miami Herald that the plaintiff had taken legal action against Howard because she simply wanted to ensure that the sensitive content depicting her was not shared with others.

“She doesn’t know how many people he sent this to,” Alcalde said. “We would like to find out if anyone else received these images, these inappropriate images.”

Howard, who was released by the Dolphins in March with three years left on his $90 million contract, has a history of sexual assault charges, according to court records. Howard has also faced a series of paternity, domestic violence and assault cases in Broward civil court since 2019.

Last November, Howard was accused of intentionally inflicting genital herpes on a woman. The woman dropped the lawsuit. Brad Sohn, who represented Howard in the case, called the allegations a “trumped-up lawsuit.”