Jul 24 2009
Is Big Ben Roethlisberger a Rapist???
Can somebody tell me why it is just now coming out that Ben Roethlisberger raped some woman last July? That’s a whole year ago!! I hate to say it, but if that was a black athlete the situation would have came to light immediately. If this was Michael Vick or Pacmac Jones we would have known about this incident one day after it occurred.
Supposedly Ben sexually assaulted and raped a hostess that was assigned to him at a celebrity golf tournament. Apparently Ben used the old “Hey my TV is broken in my room. Can you come up here and check it out?” line on the young lady, and she fell for it. I guess this is what happens after you win a couple Super Bowls. That bling bling really changes a person itell you.
Check out this article on the Ben Roethlisberger situation via Cleveland.com:
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by Starting Blocks, The Plain Dealer
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL are not commenting on a civil lawsuit filed by a Nevada woman that accuses Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault.
Ben Roethlisberger, followed by Michael Jordan at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada last Saturday. A woman has filed a sexual assault civil lawsuit against Roethlisberger, charges stemming from his 2008 visit to Nevada for a golf tournament.
Both the Steelers and the NFL say they are looking into the matter. Roethlisberger’s lawyer, William David Cornwell, Sr., vehemently denies the charges. The woman accuses Roethlisberger of forcing her to have intercourse with her in his hotel room last July, when he was in Lake Tahoe to play in a celebrity golf tournament.
Jonathan D. Silver reports the story for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He writes:
A Nevada casino worker instructed to make sure that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had a “nice trip” during a celebrity golf tournament last year claims in a lawsuit that the two-time Super Bowl winner sexually assaulted her in his hotel room.
She claims he grabbed, fondled and kissed her in his 17th-floor room after asking her to fix a broken sound system on his television.Mr. Roethlisberger then had forcible intercourse with her on his bed even though she begged him not to and warned him she was not using birth control, according to the complaint.
Questions: An Associated Press report by Scott Sonner noted Roethlisberger’s side of the story:
A woman has filed a bombshell lawsuit saying Roethlisberger raped her in a hotel penthouse a year ago, a claim he vehemently denies. The woman never went to the authorities with her story, and it’s unclear why she decided to file the lawsuit seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars a full year later.“Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone. The timing of the lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct,” Roethlisberger lawyer David Cornwell said in a statement. “If an investigation is commenced, Ben will cooperate fully and Ben will be fully exonerated.”
