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Ex-Bulldogs star Jackson Topine has hit the NRL club with a bombshell $4million lawsuit alleging he was assaulted by up to 35 of his teammates and was deprived of his liberty during a brutal punishment handed out in July last year.
The 22-year-old is accusing the team of hitting him with 'an unlawful corporal punishment' when he was 'detained' at a Sydney gym and made to wrestle 30 to 35 of his fellow Bulldogs as punishment for being eight to 10 minutes late to training.
His lawsuit alleges the disciplinary action carried out on the orders of head trainer Travis Touma amounted to 'assault and battery' and left him with 'psychiatric injury' and 'physical and mental impairment', News Corp reported.
Jackson Topine (pictured right with girlfriend Holly Leppard) has accused the Bulldogs of 'assault and battery' and 'deprivation of liberty' after he was allegedly forced to wrestle up to 35 of his teammates as punishment for being late
The alleged incident in July 2023 left Topine (pictured with Leppard) so physically shattered that he couldn't stand or walk without help
The alleged incident on July 18, 2023 saw him made to wrestle all of the club's senior squad for 30 seconds at a time, leading to one Bulldogs star telling the publication, 'It wasn't wrestling, it was humiliation.'
Now the lawsuit alleges Touma enforced the penalty on Topine after the players had already completed an intense 90-minute wrestling session.
Touma is accused of refusing to end the wrestling punishment despite Topine showing obvious
