CLEARWATER, Fla. — In his first meeting with the media since signing a one-year deal with the Phillies, right-handed reliever Jeurys Familia told reporters he believes he “paid for what happened” after the incident between he and his wife, Bianca Rivas, that occurred in Fort Lee, N.J. in 2016.
Familia, then with the Mets, was arrested on Oct. 31, 2016 on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, after the Fort Lee police filed a complaint against Familia, saying that they “found probable cause to believe that domestic violence had occurred.”
“Everything, since I was a child, is a learning experience,” Familia said in Spanish. “I’ve paid for what took place. I’m content with my wife now, my family, now that it is in the past.”
