Police are requesting a DNA sample from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who has been accused by a 20-year-old college student of sexually assaulting her March 5 in the bathroom of an Atlanta-area nightclub.
Roethlisberger's attorneys deny that the two-time Super Bowl champ attacked the student. She reported the assault to a patrol officer outside the club and immediately submitted to an examination at a local hospital, according to a report in the Milledgeville (Ga.) Union-Recorder.
Milledgeville police Chief Woodrow Blue said Roethisberger's attorneys have been cooperative. The quarterback has been interviewed by local police but has not been charged.
"The facts show that there was no criminal activity. No sexual assault occurred," Roethlisberger's Atlanta attorney Ed Garland said in a statement Monday. "Ben is completely innocent of any crime."
Last year another woman alleged in a civil suit that Roethlisberger assaulted her in his Lake Tahoe, Nev., hotel room in 2008. He has denied the allegation.
