Roethlisberger accused of Sexual Assault

[Pocket$ $traight]

Well thank goodness he is charged with committing an illegal act against a human instead of an animal. He will probably emerge unscathed.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by Pocket$ $traight

Well thank goodness he is charged with committing an illegal act against a human instead of an animal. He will probably emerge unscathed.

I was thinking the same thing. I love how Ben gets the benefit of the doubt from most people and this case is barely even being covered on Sirius NFL Radio while there are people saying Mike Vick should never play again...wtf? Since when did victimizing other people become back page news?

I'm not saying this did or did not happen. However, I will say that something doesn't seem right about this one. I know none of us know Roethlisberger personally, I just think this one is a bit hard to believe. Particularly considering this:

Originally Posted by TMZ

...she was allegedly involved with a married man. The man's wife, we're told, created an email account, posing as a U.S. soldier in Iraq. The wife began corresponding with McNulty to gain information. We're told the former co-worker has said McNulty fell in love with the fictitious soldier and began telling people she was engaged to him. When the wife stopped the correspondence, McNulty then began telling people the soldier was killed in action.

We're told McNulty told at least one co-worker she began seeing a psychiatrist because of the phantom soldier.

If she fell for something like that, does it not seem equally plausible that she could have made this stuff up?

Finally, she's suing for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400k, to me that smacks of, "we'll pick a number he could easily pay so that we don't have to take this thing to court." If I were Ben, I just might do that and have this nonsense over with.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by jdlea

I was thinking the same thing. I love how Ben gets the benefit of the doubt from most people and this case is barely even being covered on Sirius NFL Radio while there are people saying Mike Vick should never play again...wtf? Since when did victimizing other people become back page news?

I heard a caller yesterday basically making this same point, but Ross Tucker explained this story just broke, there's very little info known at this point, so he would rather wait for some facts to come out before he forms an opinion either way.

I totally agree.

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I heard a caller yesterday basically making this same point, but Ross Tucker explained this story just broke, there's very little info known at this point, so he would rather wait for some facts to come out before he forms an opinion either way.

I totally agree.

I agree too. If you really want to make the Vick comparison, though, I seem to remember that he was blasted all over the place from the moment the story broke. Now, obviously the facts of that case did not turn out well for him, but he was getting crucified before all the facts came out. Roethlisberger is certainly getting better treatment than that, and rightfully so, but I think you can still see a difference. I suspect it is mostly due to the public persona of the two men rather than the human versus animal victims.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SC Skins Fan

I agree too. If you really want to make the Vick comparison, though, I seem to remember that he was blasted all over the place from the moment the story broke. Now, obviously the facts of that case did not turn out well for him, but he was getting crucified before all the facts came out. Roethlisberger is certainly getting better treatment than that, and rightfully so, but I think you can still see a difference. I suspect it is mostly due to the public persona of the two men rather than the human versus animal victims.

I honestly don't remember what was being said when the Vick story broke, somehow I doubt he was being crucified from the word go, but either way they are totally different situations.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I honestly don't remember what was being said when the Vick story broke, somehow I doubt he was being crucified from the word go, but either way they are totally different situations.

He was getting blasted but in his case you had news coverage of neglected dogs and evidence that dog fighting was going on pretty quick after his cousin was arrested for drugs. It pretty much went down hill from day one with the Vick case.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by SC Skins Fan

I agree too. If you really want to make the Vick comparison, though, I seem to remember that he was blasted all over the place from the moment the story broke. Now, obviously the facts of that case did not turn out well for him, but he was getting crucified before all the facts came out. Roethlisberger is certainly getting better treatment than that, and rightfully so, but I think you can still see a difference. I suspect it is mostly due to the public persona of the two men rather than the human versus animal victims.

I think it mainly has to do with how the Vick story broke. Right off the bat we had a massive police raid of the house, and tons of pictures of the blacked out sheds, the fighting pits, the "training" devices used, and of course the dogs. People could see right away that something was up and that it looked like it took a lot of time, money, and effort on Vick's part to put it all together.
Now, with this situation you have the whole "she said, he said" thing going on. There are no graphic pictures to instantly grab attention. There aren't shady witnesses coming out of the woodwork to say what they saw. You have her word and her personal history against Ben, and that's all so people are probably going to be a bit more laid back and less likely to jump to conclusions.
This probably isn't the only reason that these two cases are being treated so differently, but I think it's a big one.