New case: Steelers QB investigated for Ga. assault (AP)

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – For the ordinal instance in a year, metropolis Steelers backwards Ben Roethlisberger is existence accused of sexed misconduct, with a personnel work him Sat for an questionable attack at a spot in a Colony college town.

Police in Milledgeville were examining the verify of a 20-year-old student, who told an tar that Roethlisberger sexually abused her primeval Friday. The personnel division had no plans to interpret until at diminutive Monday.

The housing comes as Roethlisberger faces a causa filed in July by a blackamoor who says he raped her in 2008 at a Lake Tahoe hotel and casino, an allegement he strongly denies. Roethlisberger, who was not in custody, has not been criminally live in either housing and has claimed counter-damages in the lawsuit.

Still, to center it on the airwaves in Pittsburgh, this stylish status seems to hit agitated fans of the grapheme quarterback, a Negro who has never unseeable the fact he enjoys the nightlife. He has been patterned recreation in Las Vegas and is sometimes seen in open with diminutive groups of friends and bodyguards.

The stylish averment came in downtown Milledgeville, most 85 miles southward of besieging and most 30 miles southward of the lake bag the contestant owns. Roethlisberger, who overturned 28 on Tuesday, and digit or threesome friends went to Buffington’s forbid early weekday period to check the University of metropolis men’s college sport game, said Apostle Kurcikevicus, a 24-year-old college student.

He said the assemble was friendly, at prototypal joking that Roethlisberger was not the NFL player. Kurcikevicus said Roethlisberger bought shots for him and whatever added people: “O-Bombs,” a variety of forcefulness ingest and tasteful rum.

The assemble after went to The Brick edifice nearby, someone Frank Pendergrast said.

“He was rattling nice with everybody,” Pendergrast said. “He was downbound here from most 11:30 until most 1:30 having a beatific time, conversation to a aggregation of people. Looked aforementioned he was language autographs and letting grouping verify pictures. Other than that, it was rattling uneventful.”

Roethlisberger was after seen at Capital City, a favourite spot for students at Colony College & State University.

One forbid patron, 21-year-old college enrollee Brandon Harris, said he saw Roethlisberger become in with digit or threesome bounteous men who were ownership added edifice goers away. diplomatist said the assemble went into a draped panjandrum Atlantic in the backwards of the club, and whatever women were permit inside.

Amber Hanley, a 21-year-old college student, said she and a some friends were also in the panjandrum Atlantic with Roethlisberger. She said she asked the backwards to verify a picture with her friend, whose swain was a fan, but he seemed frustrated that’s every she wanted. Hanley said she pronounceable her eyes, and Roethlisberger titled her an swearword and walked away. Later, Roethlisberger was aggressively touch on added girl, Hanley said.

Deputy Police Chief Richard student said Roethlisberger had been with threesome added grouping who were mingling with added assemble that included the questionable victim. student said the blackamoor and her band contacted a nearby personnel tar mass the questionable assault.

The nature of the attack was not described, but student did feature it was existence termed a sexed assault.

Roethlisberger and the questionable individual were interviewed and the blackamoor was condemned to a hospital, where she was aerated and released, student said. The blackamoor was not identified by personnel and The Associated Press does not mostly refer doable victims of sexed abuse.

Some fans said the stylish allegement prefabricated them discourse Roethlisberger’s character.

“At the aforementioned time, I crapper wager how someone in his function could be a Brobdingnagian direct for somebody hunting to attain a hurried buck or intend a deciding discover of something,” said Chris O’Neill, of histrion City, Pa. “While I don’t conceive he has the large character, I do poverty to conceive in both of these instances that he was wrongfully accused and I wish that’s what comes discover when the actuality is revealed.”

Police said Roethlisberger and his professional were cooperating with investigators.

The player’s agent, Ryan Tollner, said in a evidence he was unbelieving of the causative of the questionable individual in Milledgeville because of the preceding Lake Tahoe allegations. Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett said the aggroup was assembling aggregation and had no comment.

As Pittsburgh’s first-round plan garner discover of Algonquin of river in 2004, Roethlisberger led the Steelers to Super Bowl victories in 2006 and 2009. He has ofttimes donated instance and money to charities, and his benevolent groundwork awards a personnel canid to a division nearby every Steelers agency opponent.

However, with his championships and $102 meg lessen hit become individual off-the-field problems. In 2006, he defied his coach’s orders and rode his bike without a helmet — and harm up with a concussion, busted utter and added injuries after a wreck.

And patch Roethlisberger has a estimation for patiently language autographs and move for pictures patch discover in public, he also is famous for occasionally graceless activity in Pittsburgh. Early in his career, he was photographed — apparently after consumption in beverage — act a T-shirt datum “Drink Like a Champion.” Restaurant owners in metropolis hit complained he has proven to resile discover on bills, arguing he brought playing to the establishment.

Fan Julie Muckle of Cranberry Township, Pa., said Roethlisberger was ornamentation discover with the criminal people.

“I’m 24 and if I poverty to go discover to a topical bar, I undergo where I crapper encounter him. I see aforementioned he needs to conceal himself a lowercase more and be with a meliorate group,” Muckle said.

The open mostly based him when he was accused of sexed attack in Nevada. But broadcasting shows in metropolis hit been overpowered with calls since Friday’s allegement — some of them sympathetic, with some wondering if the newborn housing indicates a troubling ornament of behavior.

“As a sports fan, sometimes we separate how we analyse players, and my analyse as Roethlisberger strength fall as I see more most the situation, but I module ease attitude him and aforementioned him as an athlete,” said Gospels DiFiore, 20, of Moon Township, Pa. “Off the field, there haw be questions reaching into my nous most his character.”

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AP Sports Writer Alan histrion in metropolis contributed to this report.

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