Editors’ note: This story contains accounts of domestic violence. If you or someone you know is a survivor of domestic abuse, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or at https://www.thehotline.org/.
Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascón announced on Tuesday that his office filed domestic violence charges against Hornets forward Miles Bridges after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two kids in June.
According to the criminal complaint, Bridges faces “two felony counts of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death” and one felony count of injuring a child’s parent. Bridges is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, per the district attorney’s office release.
