The inevitable next step in the saga in which a monkey belonging to a Texas football assistant coach’s girlfriend, a former stripper who went by the name Pole Assassin, allegedly bit a child has arrived:
The child’s family has sued.
In November, it was rumored the child was bitten by the monkey, Gia, at a haunted house hosted by Danielle Thomas in Austin. Thomas, a former exotic dancer and owner of Gia — who was part of her act — was revealed to be dating Jeff Banks, a special teams coach for the Longhorns.
According to the Austin American-Statesman, Amy and Casey Clinkenbeard filed a lawsuit alleging that their son was bit by Thomas’s monkey. The suit says that their son and two of his friends were “taken” to the house’s back yard to see the monkey. They were allegedly told that the monkey was trained to give high-fives, and that’s when the bite happened.
“Instead of giving a high five, Danielle Thomas’ monkey aggressively bit down on [the boy] C.C.’s hand and refused to let go,” the lawsuit alleges. “C.C. was forced to manually pry the monkey’s jaw open. There was so much blood that C.C. was unable to see the full extent of the injury.”
The suit alleges that, because Thomas refused to disclose the vaccination history of the monkey, the boy had to undergo painful rabies shots. It seeks compensation for medical costs, plus punitive damages for “significant harassment and embarrassment” for Thomas allegedly lying about the parameters of the incident.
When news of the incident broke, Thomas stated kids at the haunted house did not have “permission” to see the monkey on her since-deleted Twitter account.
“I had a haunted house on one side gated off … I had no idea he went in my back yard,” Thomas had written. “Neither did I know anything about a bite! Until a doctor of neighborhood told me.”
Banks and Thomas are both named in the suit. It remains unclear whether Banks was at the home at the time of the incident.
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