| Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger's Attorneys Go On Offensive | Posted By: 86WARD
08-11-2009
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In their first legal response to the civil lawsuit accusing Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault, attorneys for the Steelers quarterback argue that his accuser never filed a police report, boasted of having consensual sex with him, timed the lawsuit to capitalize on media attention, and suffered a psychological breakdown after having an affair with a married man. The counter-accusations were contained in a motion filed in Reno, Nev., by Mr. Roethlisberger's newly expanded legal team seeking a change of venue to the Lake Tahoe area. The accuser, a 31-year-old employee of Harrah's Lake Tahoe, claims Mr. Roethlisberger assaulted her while staying at the casino-hotel for a celebrity golf tournament in July 2008. "This false and slanderous claim was directly contrary to the story that plaintiff had previously told. She never told her parents that she had been assaulted by Mr. Roethlisberger. Plaintiff never told her co-workers, including her mentor, that she had been harmed or battered by Mr. Roethlisberger. To the contrary, she boasted to her friends and co-workers that she had consensual sexual relations with Mr. Roethlisberger and was happy about that. Plaintiff was also not afraid or apprehensive about the prospect of an unplanned pregnancy, but expressed to others that she hoped that she was pregnant by Mr. Roethlisberger."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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