EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Josh Brown’s future with the New York Giants and possibly the NFL is in jeopardy after police released journal entries and emails in which the place-kicker admitted that he repeatedly verbally and physically abused his former wife.

The league reacted Thursday by re-opening its investigation into a 2015 domestic abuse complaint made by Brown’s former wife, though prosecutors said they were closing the criminal case without filing charges because they could not secure key testimony from the woman and other key witnesses. Meanwhile, the Giants announced that Brown would not make the trip to England for a game Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams.

The Giants said they want to review the new information released by King County law enforcement officials in Washington state.

The Giants’ co-owner, John Mara, said he was upset by the new information about Brown’s history of domestic abuse, adding he felt it was in the best interest of the team to leave him home.

“I want to get all the information we can get,” Mara said in a radio interview with WFAN. “I am certainly disturbed by what we read. He has admitted to us that he abused his wife in the past. I think what is a little unclear is the extent of that, but what we have read about is obviously disturbing.”

Brown’s former wife, Molly, alleged more than 20 instances of domestic violence. In a report released by the King County Sheriff’s Office that summarized the allegations, Detective Robin Ostrom said the allegations included that he had slammed her into a large bedroom mirror, breaking it; that he had shoved a chair into her leg, bruising it; and that he damaged a bathroom door when he lost his temper with her older son.

“I have physically, mentally, emotionally and verbally been a repulsive man,” Brown wrote in one journal entry. “I have abused my wife.”

The journal was part of 165 pages of documents that were turned over to authorities by Brown’s former wife.

One of the documents dated more than two years before Brown’s arrest was called a “Contract for Change” and appeared to be signed by both the kicker and his former wife.

“I have controlled her by making her feel less human than me, and manipulated her with money,” said one of the eight items in the list. “I have disregarded my stepsons’ feelings and they have witnessed me abusing their mother.”

In a 2013 email, Brown said he caused his wife to fear him.

“From the bruise on your leg when we argued … to the zipper that caught you last April. I am ashamed and disgraced to call myself a husband,” Brown said.

Copy the Story Link