Big Ben Charged with Sexual Assault and other related charges


One of the more interesting things is that ESPN has yet to put a story on it and this broke last night

Thoughts?

need more details. My first thought is whether or not he was hanging out with Kobe that night.

I can't imagine him moving quick enough to assault anybody. -thenoodleman

God damnit. I really like Big Ben. I really hope this isn't true.

Sex boat?

seems like BS to me, but who knows

of course it isn't true

[ ] kobe raped anyone
[ ] ben raped anyone

From what I've read the other parties are being charged either with anti-defamatory suits (likely to keep them from telling everyone what a whore this chick was) or providing unsafe working conditions

On paper, looks like this chick is going for the gusto

You were there, right?

Clearly a BS story. No police report? Happened over a year ago?

She's just looking for some cash.

no i just have common sense

ok there's a like .5% chance he did, but cmon

I hate Big Ben (or at least the media's perception of him) so much that I kind of hope this is true. Is that wrong?

fyp

Attitudes like yours are the reason most women don't report rapes.

Why not let the police and/or justice system decide what happened rather than let your bigoted stereotype of women decide?

Am I wrong in thinking he hasn't been charged with sexual assault and that is awful wording?

The local take on this is ridiculous, the article tilts me...

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/...49/detail.html

First off, the wording of this quote, and this isn't the writers doing, obviously, but the tone of this his terrible, but humorous:

"This weekend Andrea McNulty served Ben Roethlisberger with a civil complaint accusing him of sexually assaulting her in July 2008. Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone; especially Andrea McNulty." (emphasis mine)

But the kicker is how this article goes from sexual assault story to a story about a motorcycle accident and his poor performance following the 2006 motorcycle accident. It's relevance to the story is lost on me. It seems like they can't let an article end on a down note for the local hero.

I'm a big pittsburgh sports fan, but if this guy did what is claimed, and I have no reason to believe he did, but IF he did, he should be chased out of town.

about 500k on lawyers to beat the charge.

Oh no ben... she's a 5



TMZ

lol get real

of course women get raped all the time and it's terrible and should be reported immediately

but when a superstar athlete in the public eye (with a good reputation) gets accused of being raped i tend to think it's more fiction than truth

SORRY THAT MAKES ME SO INSENSITIVE

Of course he did it, all athletes accused of rape are guilty. AMIRITE?

I mean are you people so stupid to believe that a broke woman would just randomly accuse a millionaire athlete in the prime of his career with everything to lose of a haineous crime such as rape for no good reason?

Please.

Not even.

lol. oh noes save the newspapers pillars of society

lol at that troll.

Kobe did release that weird apology that made him sound guilty as hell.... "i really feel bad for the young lady and now realize that she did not think it was consensual"...