>for her spilling hot coffee on a male athlete who she claims was sexually assaulting a minor and she did that to get him to stop

Unless this article omitted some key facts, this is not what happened.

The S.A wasn't occurring when she spilled the coffee on him, it had already happened. Her then spilling the coffee on the player happened after the fact and probably in like a cafeteria or something.

So in the context of this article, she spilled the coffee after he was accused of S.A...not during the S.A itself. And that's why she was facing disciplinary action.