Fired Georgia football WR Rara Thomas indicted by a grand jury

Wide receiver Rara Thomas, fired from the Georgia football team August 1, after being arrested for the second time on domestic violence charges, was indicted last week by a grand jury in Clarke County Superior Court on one count of cruelty to children in the second degree and two counts of misdemeanor domestic violence .

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

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

As for cruelty to children, Thomas is accused of causing “vicious physical pain by beating the victim while abusing her mother,” who was holding her down.

In one count of domestic violence, the indictment alleges that Thomas intentionally caused the child’s mother to suffer a “bloody nose, bloody split lip, chin abrasion and neck bruising” by punching her in the face.

In the other domestic violence charge, the indictment states that Thomas intentionally caused “an abrasion on the forehead” of the child, who is his daughter, and “assaulted her mother” while holding her down.

Thomas will be arraigned on December 16.

The transfer to Mississippi State was rejected before the season after meeting with Georgia coach Kirby Smart after four days in jail.

Thomas, from Eufaula, Ala., was arrested in January 2023, shortly after joining the Georgia program, for an incident with a woman in a UGA dorm. He took part in a preliminary investigation on a domestic violence charge, while a false imprisonment charge was dismissed.

Another Georgia trustee, Colbie Young, has been suspended indefinitely after being arrested on October 8 on suspicion of assault and battery on an unborn child. The female prosecutor in the case, Young’s ex-girlfriend, wants the charges dismissed. according to Kim Stephens, Young’s attorney.

Stephens said she first contacted the law firm on Oct. 14.

“Colbie Young has not committed any act of violence against me or my unborn child, including but not limited to simple battery or abuse of an unborn child,” she said in an affidavit.

Stephens asks that the charges be dismissed and that Young, a transfer from Miami, be allowed to resume all team activities and play games.

“The legal process has to play itself out,” Smart said Monday. “We want to support Colbie wherever we can. We continue to give him access to our facilities and the support resources that we have, whether that’s Rankin (Smith Academic Center), the training room, the mental health services, the weight room. But the legal process must be completed before we can do anything.”