Ben Roethlisberger has settled several rape accusations to make sure those cases never went to court. After the settlements the accusers would stop cooperating with the police and that was the end of that.
Here is one accuser’s account of what Ben did to her.
In a statement to police on March 5, the 20-year-old college student said Roethlisberger encouraged her, and her friends, to take numerous shots of alcohol. Then one of his bodyguards escorted her into a hallway at the Capital City nightclub, sat her on a stool and left. She said Roethlisberger walked down the hallway and exposed himself.
“I told him it wasn’t OK, no, we don’t need to do this and I proceeded to get up and try to leave,” she said. “I went to the first door I saw, which happened to be a bathroom.”
According to her statement, Roethlisberger then followed her into a nearby bathroom and shut the door.
“I still said no, this is not OK, and he then had sex with me,” she wrote. “He said it was OK. He then left without saying anything.”
Nicole Biancofiore, a friend of the accuser, told investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations her friend, a student at Georgia College & State University, “was dragged by a bodyguard to the back room in Capital [City, a local nightclub]. She was extremely intoxicated and not aware of what was happening.”
Two of the woman’s friends said they saw the bodyguard lead her into the hallway and then saw Roethlisberger follow. They said they couldn’t see their friend but knew she was drunk and were worried about her.
Ann Marie Lubatti told police she approached one of Roethlisberger’s two bodyguards and said, “This isn’t right. My friend is back there with Ben. She needs to come back right now.”
She said the bodyguard wouldn’t look her in the eye and said he didn’t know what she was talking about. The GBI later identified that bodyguard as Ed Joyner, and the GBI also determined that the man who led Roethlisberger’s accuser down the hallway was Anthony Barravecchio. Joyner is a Pennsylvania trooper and Barravecchio is an officer on the force in the Pittsburgh suburb of Coraopolis.
The officers said they had “no memory” of what happened on that night.
Eventually Ben paid her off like he did the others, was suspended by the NFL for a couple of games and people rarely mention it anymore (unlike someone like Michael Vick whose treatment of dogs is mentioned any time his name comes up).
So, it isn’t a surprise that cops want you to support Big Ben and ignore what Colin Kaepernick is saying about police brutality and unarmed black men being shot dead in the streets.
Here is what the website Police One had to say about Ben.
Even as professional athletes like Colin Kaepernick kneel during the national anthem in protest over what they perceive to be an unfair judicial system that disproportionately targets minority populations, some of the elites who play games for money support law enforcement.
If American cops want to root for a professional athlete — as opposed to rooting against one — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is as good a candidate.
Many officers may not know that for the past decade Roethlisberger has been quietly supporting police K-9 units across the country with generous donations from his foundation. Roethlisberger established his foundation in 2006 after a police dog was shot and killed in his hometown of Findlay, Ohio.
Roethlisberger’s foundation has distributed in excess of $1.5 million in 177 grants since 2007 and donated more than $170,000 to K-9 units around the country during the 2015 NFL season.
The K-9 grants have funded the purchase of dogs, training of dogs and handlers, training and safety equipment, and as well as food, vet services and housing.
There is nothing wrong with donating to good police officers and the training of police dogs, but don’t pit Kaepernick against Big Ben.
One of them kneels for social injustice, the others has been accused of rape several times, they aren’t the same, I know who I’d have my child root for.