NFL Lays Out New Penalty For Domestic Violence: 6-Game Suspension [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/29/1412:00 PM

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has announced new guidelines for how the league will handle incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault. The change in policy, explained an open letter to team owners, come a month after the NFL was criticized for how it handled player Ray Rice's arrest on domestic violence charges.

Goodell says that the new policies were developed after conversations with outside experts, team owners and the NFL Players Association. The open letter describes several ways in which the NFL plans to provide training, support and resources to personnel, players and their families. It also sets down guidelines for how sexual assault and domestic abuse will be punished in the future.

[For more of this story, written by Camila Domonoske, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...ce-6-game-suspension]

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