Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of sexually assaulting an unnamed 20-year old female Georgia college student at a dance club. For those counting at home, this is Roethlisberger’s second sexual assault accusation. He was accused of raping Andrea McNulty, a Nevada resort hostess in a hotel room during a July 2008 golf tournament at Lake Tahoe. Andrea McNulty never went to the police and instead chose to sue Roethlisberger in civil court. A lawsuit was filed July 17, 2009.
This case is different in that instead of happening in a hotel room, it is said to have happened in the ladies room of Capital City, a dance club in Milledgeville, Georgia near Ben Roethlisberger’s off-season home. Even Ben Roethlisberger doesn’t want to be in Pittsburgh any longer than he has to. Can anyone really blame him?
The woman also went to the police and filed a sexual assault report, something alleged victim #1 never bothered to do.
Not that it really matters, but how does a 20-year old woman gain access to a drinking establishment? Don’t they card people down in Georgia?
Nine years ago while Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, he commuted the 60-year prison sentence of a man named Maurice Clemmons. This same man is now wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of four Washington State police officers.
Whoops.
If it wasn’t for Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons would still be in prison in Arkansas. He wouldn’t have been able to walk into the Lakewood, Washington coffee shop and gun down four police officers as they sat doing paperwork on their laptop computers.
It’s not like this is even Clemmons’ first transgression since been being let out of prison by Huckabee. Clemmons is on bail awaiting trial for third-degree assault on a police officer and second-degree rape of a child. How does someone even get bail for raping a child?
I’m guessing this means the end of Huckabee’s presidential aspirations. I imagine anyone running against Huckabee in the Republican primary will make Maurice Clemmons their poster child.
by Rick on November 30, 2009
The Swiss appear to be caving to the demands of award wining director and convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. While he awaits extradition to the United States for drugging and then raping a 13-year old girl in 1977, he will be allowed to post bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.49 million U.S.) and stay under house arrest in his chalet in the resort of Gstaad.
The Swiss have to know that the chances of him staying in his chalet while he awaits extradition is zero. He ran from justice once before and he will run from justice once again. It’s what he does.
The only thing I hate more than Roman Polanski are the people in the entertainment industry that defend Polanski because, well, he’s a good movie director. As if that fact could negate what he did in 1977. If there was anything we should all agree on, you’d think it would be that a 44-year old man drugging a 13-year old girl so that he could sodomize her, is wrong. That whoever did something like this should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
It seems insane to me that people can disagree on this.
by Rick on November 26, 2009
Looks like Hollywood’s favorite kid rapist may be looking at the inside of a prison cell afterall. Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant shortly after arriving in Zurich for a film festival featuring his work.
From the New York Times:
Mr. Polanski was detained by the police Saturday upon his arrival at the Zurich airport, said Guido Balmer, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Justice Department. The director was being held in provisional detention in preparation for a possible extradition to the United States based on an arrest warrant dating to 1978.
Mr. Polanski, 76, was convicted that year in a California court of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl whom he had lured to the home of Jack Nicholson and drugged. Faced with a prison term, he fled the United States just before his sentencing.
Polanski has been living in France since he fled the United States. Polanski is a French citizen and France has a very limited extradition policy with the United States. Go figure.
At the time of the sexual assault, Polanski was 44-years old. He was photographing the 13-year old girl for the French edition of Vogue. After giving her a combination of champagne and quaaludes, he performed a series of sex acts upon her.
Needless to say, Roman Polanski is a dirtbag. Shame on him, shame on France for protecting him all these years, and shame on those that continued to employ him to direct movies.
by Rick on September 27, 2009
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is being sued in Nevada for sexually assaulting a Harrah’s casino employee in Lake Tahoe he lured to his room under the pretense that his television wasn’t working. From WTAE ABC TV:
The story was broken on Monday evening by ProFootballTalk.com, which reported that Harrah’s casino employee Andrea McNulty filed the civil lawsuit last week in Washoe County, Nev., stemming from an alleged incident at a hotel room in July 2008.
Roethlisberger is not facing any criminal charges, and it’s unclear if McNulty ever tried to file a criminal complaint before taking legal action against him.
Roethlisberger was in Lake Tahoe playing in a charity celebrity golf tournament.
Nothing like taking an alleged sexual assault against one of your own and turning it into fodder to be used against the other team’s star player.
I’m not sure what this Nuggets fan will do with her t-shirt now that the Nuggets season is finally over.
Kobe Bryant was never convicted of raping 19-year old Katelyn Faber in a hotel room in Cordillera, Colorado back in 2003. Mostly that’s because Faber kept on changing her story as to what happened that night. She also refused to testify against Bryant in criminal court after she reached an out-of-court settlement with Bryant in civil court.
Terms of the settlement were never made public. [Photo: Deadspin]
A 9-year-old girl in Brazil was raped by her step-father. When the girl complained of severe stomach pains, he mother took her to the hospital where doctors discovered that she was four months pregnant with twins. Evidently the girl had been sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather. When doctors explained to the girl’s mother that having a twins at such an early age would possibly kill the girl, the mother elected to terminate the pregnancies.
The 9-year-old rape victim received a life-saving abortion.
The Catholic Church responded to the situation by officially excommunicating the mother and doctors. A senior Vatican official defended the action saying that life must always be protected.
What about the step-father? Though he was arrested for raping his 9-year-old step-daughter and possibly her 14-year old handicapped sister, he was not excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The reason? Though the Church views that rape of a 9-year-old to be “a heinous crime”, it’s not as serious as abortion. The Church thinks what the girl’s mother and doctors did was far worse than what the rapist step-father did.
If there was ever a time this poor woman needed the spiritual support that one receives from one’s faith, it has to be now. Instead of supporting her, her church expels her. It’s not as if this woman actually made the choice to have her 9-year old daughter’s pregnancies terminated. This woman had no choice. She no more chose to have the pregnancies aborted than a person chooses to leave a burning building.
by Rick on March 10, 2009
What exactly does Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate have against women who are rapped? Not only does she think that a rape victim should be forced to have a rapist’s child even if her rapist is a blood relative, Wasilla rape victims were sent a bill to cover the cost of their own rape kit. A rape kit is used by law enforcement to collect physical evidence from a rape. They cost anywhere from $300 to $1,200.
The Wasilla police department would first try to bill the victim’s insurance company and if they refused to pay for the cost of the rape kit, the victim herself was sent the bill. I’m not really sure why an insurance company would pay for the rape kit. They are intended to gather physical evidence, not to treat injuries.
The state of Alaska had to step in and create a special law that forbid the practice from happening. [Anchorage Daily News]
by Rick on September 12, 2008
Daily Kos currently has a blog post — they call them “Diaries” — up that claims that Governor Sarah Palin’s 4-month old baby with Down syndrome might be her granddaughter grandson. Evidently there is a rumor going around that the baby is Palin’s teenage daughter’s child, not the Governor’s.
They linked to an article in the Anchorage Daily News published this past March that broke the news that Palin at the time was 7-months pregnant. The problem was that she didn’t look pregnant. Supposedly her own staff was caught off guard by the news.
It states on Daily Kos that Palin’s teenage daughter was out of school and unseen by anyone for months because she had mono.
I’m somewhat surprised that this story would appear over on Daily Kos. I highly doubt the mainstream news will touch this, unless you consider the National Enquirer to be a member of the mainstream news media.
I’m not sure how Republicans or conservatives will respond to this rumor. Palin is extremely anti-choice. While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin stated in a debate that even if her daughter became pregnant in the result of a rape, she would “choose life”. I believe that is code for forcing her underage child to have her rapist’s baby.
That’s just plain nuts.
How would Governor Palin and her husband respond if their teenage daughter became pregnant? Would they hide the fact that their teenage daughter obviously had unprotected sex and became pregnant?
by Rick on August 31, 2008
