HOUSTON — Five former N.F.L. cheerleaders sued the Houston Texans on Friday, claiming the team failed to fully compensate them as required by law and subjected them to a hostile work environment in which they were harassed and intimidated. “I and my fellow cheerleaders were treated as the lowest of the low,” Hannah Turnbow, one of the former cheerleaders, said at a news conference. It is the second such lawsuit filed against the Texans. Turnbow said that after she was attacked by a fan at one game, and left with abrasions on her shoulder, the team told her “to just suck it up.”

Source: New York Times June 01, 2018 23:26 UTC