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Recordings released from sexual assault investigation of Ben Roethlisberger

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has released more than 50 audio and video recordings from its investigation of suspended Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Included are the first and second interviews with the 20-year-old college student who accused Roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her in the bathroom of a Georgia nightclub in March and shaky footage of Roethlisberger partying at the club that night.

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The prosecutor determined there wasn’t enough evidence to warrant criminal charges after the investigation concluded, and he said the woman ultimately asked him not to prosecute the quarterback.

The accuser, whose name has not been released by authorities, was interviewed twice by police -- the first time shortly after she made the accusation early March 5 in the small college town of Milledgeville, Ga., about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta, and the second time about 12 hours later at the Milledgeville police station.

During the first interview, which was audio only, the woman, who slurred her words and admitted to being drunk, said she repeatedly told Roethlisberger, “I really don’t think this is OK,” but couldn’t stop him from having sex with her.

“I don’t know what I can ... do,” she said. “I’m a little girl and he’s a big boy.”

She was calmer the next afternoon during the follow-up interview, which was videotaped, but was adamant that she had been raped by Roethlisbeger. She said she didn’t think trying to fight Roethlisberger would stop the assault.

“I figured it wouldn’t help anything,” she said. “I didn’t want, obviously, him to hurt me any more than he was going to.”

TMZ.com has the video of Roethlisberger partying at the club.

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-- Chuck Schilken

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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