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Giants To Discuss Josh Brown Future In Next 24 Hours

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The New York Giants have started discussions about placekicker Josh Brown and his future with the team a day after returning from a game in London.

Coach Ben McAdoo said Monday that the team's front office met to talk about Brown, and that he would probably join those talks either later in the evening or on Tuesday morning.

The NFL placed Brown on paid leave Friday after the kicker disclosed in journals and emails released by authorities in the state of Washington that he abused his wife.

The Giants did not allow Brown to leave with them Thursday for London for Sunday's 17-10 win over the Los Angeles Rams.

Being placed on Commissioner Roger Goodell's "exempt" list means Brown cannot attend practices or Giants games but can go to team's headquarters for meetings and workouts. McAdoo said Brown was not there Monday, but the players had the day off.

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The NFL's official policy is to suspend players guilty of domestic abuse for six games on their first offense. Brown was suspended for one game, the Giants' season-opening victory over the Dallas Cowboys, in punishment for his May 2015 arrest at his family home in Woodinville, Washington, on suspicion of assaulting his wife by grabbing one of her wrists as she tried to reach for a phone, leaving an abrasion and bruising. No charges were filed but the detective gathered detailed statements from Molly Brown who also provided her husband's written admissions of abuse in diary and email entries.

The NFL said its investigators asked to see these records but were denied, but police said a formal request was never filed. The league has reopened its investigation.

The journal was part of was part of 165 pages of documents that were turned over to authorities by Brown's former wife, Molly, after his arrest. She had accused him of 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.

The report also detailed how the wife anguished over whether to move forward with a prosecution, given the effect it could have on her family.

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.

In a March 2014 letter he wrote to friends, apparently as part of a counseling session with his wife, Brown blamed his treatment of women on the fact that he was molested when he was about 6 years old.

"I have been a liar for most of my life," he wrote. "I made selfish decisions to use and abuse women starting at the age of 7 to fill this void. I objectified women and never really worried about the pain and hurt I caused them. My ability to connect emotionally to other people was zero. My empathy levels were zero.

"Because I never handled these underlying issues I became an abuser and hurt Molly physically, emotionally and verbally. I viewed myself as God basically and she was my slave."

At the Pro Bowl in Honolulu, Brown's wife said she called NFL security to move her and her three children to another hotel to avoid harassment from her estranged husband. She said he had pounded on their hotel door seeking to get in. The allegation is included in the final report filed last month by the local investigating detective, Robin Ostrum.

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