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Things continue to get worse for Ben Roethlisberger as more details surface from the 572-page investigation report assembled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
This time, the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION scares out details from the report that document another “unwanted advance” that once again included the Steelers quarterback exposing his genitals to a female. Read more…
Today Ocmulgee (Ga.) Judicial Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright said that on March 17, the accuser in the Ben Roethlisberger sexual assault investigation confirmed in a letter to authorities that she didn’t want to press criminal charges against Roethlisberger.
Knowing that, news of the case right around that date clearly points to the accuser backing off her claim.
On March 24, KDKA-TV reported:
Sources close to the investigation say that investigators have had trouble re-interviewing the woman since the night of the incident. Sources say the 20-year-old co-ed did not show up for a scheduled interview a week ago yesterday and that as of Friday she still had not come in to be questioned.
“A week ago yesterday” would’ve been March 16, the day before the accuser sent a letter to authorities informing them that she did not want to press charges.
On March 17, I noted this from WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh:
His accuser may return to Georgia College & State University as early as this week, according to the woman’s lawyer. She took a leave of absence and went home to her parents in Atlanta after media descended on the tiny college town where she claims to have been assaulted.
The 20-year-old woman made a surprise appearance over the weekend at a sorority retreat in the mountains of northern Georgia. Her sisters said she was acting very normal and just wanted to get away for the weekend and didn’t want to talk about the allegations.
As soon as that news came down, Roethlisberger wasn’t going to be charged, as a case that was already flimsy would be impossible to prosecute without the cooperation of the accuser.
But the accuser’s decision to rescind her claim against the quarterback may have come well before March 17. WTAE reported that she’d re-joined her sorority’s activities the previous weekend, March 13-14, with subsequent plans to return to school.
Now the timing of that news makes sense and may point to when settlement negotiations began. Perhaps even earlier than March 13. (If there was a settlement.)
On March 17, I also noted: Read more…
Earlier today I noted a KDKA-TV report that indicated the woman who has accused of Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault in Georgia recently missed a scheduled interview with police. Attorneys for the woman have now come out with a statement to clarify the status of their client.
TMZ.com reports:
Her reps tell us they broke their silence to correct “recent misstatements in the media,” saying, “Our client is cooperating fully with law enforcement in this matter. Future interviews have been scheduled and our client will attend.”
The lawyers were mum on when the sit-downs with cops will take place.
Recent media reports have indicated that authorities may have information that discredits the woman’s claims against Roethlisberger. Read more…
WTAE-TV reports late this week that Ben Roethlisberger’s sexual assault accuser recently attended a “sorority retreat” in the North Georgia mountains and plans to go back to school soon.
His accuser may return to Georgia College & State University as early as this week, according to the woman’s lawyer. She took a leave of absence and went home to her parents in Atlanta after media descended on the tiny college town where she claims to have been assaulted.
The 20-year-old woman made a surprise appearance over the weekend at a sorority retreat in the mountains of northern Georgia. Her sisters said she was acting very normal and just wanted to get away for the weekend and didn’t want to talk about the allegations.
With the way things are going for Roethlisberger in this case, those seemingly mundane details might end up part of a case the quarterback’s attorney is building against the accuser if the QB is eventually charged with a crime.
I say that because based on the information made available to the public, along with the actions of Roethlisberger attorney Ed Garland, it appears the quarterback’s counsel views the background of the accuser as perhaps the most critical component of a possible court proceeding. Otherwise Garland wouldn’t have hurriedly hired high-profile private investigator Charles Middlestadt to presumably dig into the accuser’s personal life.
You probably remember that on March 9, TMZ.com reported that Ben Roethlisberger’s sexual assault accuser had “dropped out of Georgia College & State University over the weekend.”
(Roethlisberger the night of the alleged assault. Alleged victim not pictured)
But, for whatever reason, you might not know that later that day Georgia College & State University indicated that the alleged victim was still enrolled at the school. Read more…
