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Former TCU football standout pleads guilty to assaulting longtime girlfriend

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Former TCU star football player KaVontae Turpin pled guilty to assaulting his girlfriend, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office announced on Monday.

Turpin faced a misdemeanor assault charge from an arrest in late October, where he allegedly “dragged” and “slammed” his girlfriend, Raiesha Atwater, in an apartment complex parking lot.

Turpin pled guilty to “assault causing bodily injury -- family violence” in the Tarrant County Criminal Court No.