A newly filed civil lawsuit accuses Houston Texans safety Jimmie Ward of assaulting the mother of his son by beating her in front of the child while on drugs. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Harris County and seeks more than $20 million in damages.

Ward, 34, was arrested by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in June and charged with assault family violence impeding breath/circulation, a third-degree felony, in the aftermath of one of the alleged assaults.

Houston Texans safety Jimmie Ward has been arrested twice this summer, once on a third-degree felony assault charge and another after testing positive for alcohol, which violated