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August 11, 2009
Coworker: Roethlisberger's Accuser is Lying About Rape: Andrea McNulty, the woman who has accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of rape in a civil lawsuit, boasted to a coworker at the time of the alleged incident of having consensual sex with him, according to a sworn affidavit filed by that coworker Friday in court. Angela Antonetti said that McNulty told her she hoped she was pregnant with a "little Roethlisberger." "Because I knew that [her] lawsuit and false allegations would unfairly and unjustly hurt Mr. Roethlisberger, I wanted to set the story straight," Antonetti declares in the affadavit.
'At least someone came out and did the right thing. If it's true what this woman is saying, the accuser should go to jail.'
As should the perpetrator of the witch hunt with the Duke LaCrosse team.
posted by Tinman at 03:55 PM on August 11, 2009
Not rape. Or sexual assault. Or even non-consensual sex. Are there actual distinctions between these acts?
At least there is an athlete out there that had some actual intercourse. Hopefully he wasted a lot of his money. That would put the universe back in order.
posted by THX-1138 at 04:14 PM on August 11, 2009
As should the perpetrator of the witch hunt with the Duke LaCrosse team.
And everyone that accused the Duke LaCrosse team of being guilty of the crime before any of the facts were out. Like for example: Selena Roberts
*Notice where the link leads you to in order to show how Selena Roberts screwed up on the Duke LaCrosse case and still refuses to apologize.)
posted by BornIcon at 08:01 AM on August 12, 2009
Related Post-Gazette article about Roethlisberger's attorneys attack.
posted by scully at 08:10 AM on August 12, 2009
In their filing, Roethlisberger's attorneys accuse the woman and her attorneys of employing a "Nifong strategy," a reference to the disbarred and disgraced prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case. He's become an adjective for malicious lawyering.
Reading that Post-Gazette article, it seems like his attorneys are confirming that he had sex with her. There's no denial of that claim, just a denial of sex assault.
Maybe A.C. Green had the right idea. Save yourself for after your career. Either that, or get really crazy and only have sex with your spouse.
posted by rcade at 09:11 AM on August 12, 2009
Maybe A.C. Green had the right idea. Save yourself for after your career. Either that, or get really crazy and only have sex with your spouse.
A.C. Green was indeed correct with choosing to stay celibate until after marriage. With the way the world is today, it's open season for celebrities and people looking for a huge payday.
posted by BornIcon at 09:14 AM on August 12, 2009
I think the comparisons to the Duke lacrosse case are a touch much. We are talking about a civil suit here. Further, neither her nor her lawyers have said anything to the press. The press got their information from the publicly available civil pleadings. And everyone that accused the Duke LaCrosse team of being guilty of the crime before any of the facts were out. Like for example: Selena Roberts
I think this is wrong-headed. Blaming people for believing a prosecutor is just ridiculous. I thought the lacrosse team wasn't cooperating as well. That's what the prosecutor said. No one from the team at the time had said anything else. All the players lawyered up. It looked suspicious. It turns out that the prosecutor was on some crazy power trip. I'm not apologizing for believing the prosecutor. I don't know why Roberts should.
posted by bperk at 09:29 AM on August 12, 2009
Selena Roberts didn't have all of the facts to back up what she was writing and only believed what the prosecutor was saying. After the facts were out that the Duke LaCrosse team did not do what they were being charged with and the prosecutor was "disbarred and found guilty of criminal contempt", Roberts still refused to apologize and "continues to smear Duke and the team to this day".
posted by BornIcon at 09:51 AM on August 12, 2009
I thought Duke was in North Carolina, not Wisconsin.
posted by yerfatma at 10:05 AM on August 12, 2009
I agree with bperk that this isn't all that similar to the Duke lacrosse case, and it may be to some degree because some people have learned a lesson from that episode. It may also be because the accused is a more famous athlete, and the "victim" doesn't seem to have much credibility due to a changing story and waiting so long to report it. The Duke case seemed much more credible at first than this one ever did.
posted by TheQatarian at 11:56 AM on August 12, 2009
Fortunately, none of us here at Sportsfilter have ever jumped to a conclusion based on initial reports.
posted by Joey Michaels at 03:10 PM on August 12, 2009
posted by yerfatma at 04:03 PM on August 12, 2009
Awesome.
posted by Joey Michaels at 05:22 PM on August 12, 2009
classic "Office Space" yerfatma. Nice work....
My friends and I always got the biggest chuckle out of "Moot!"
posted by DudeDykstra at 03:04 PM on August 19, 2009
At least someone came out and did the right thing. If it's true what this woman is saying, the accuser should go to jail.