In two interviews with authorities, a Georgia college student calmly told police that Ben Roethlisberger had sex with her over her objections inside a dark nightclub bathroom.

But there were two critical inconsistencies in the version of events she related to police in the interviews -- the first of which occurred mere hours after the woman went to police and the second of which occurred about 12 hours after the alleged incident.

Namely, the woman characterized the way she and the Steelers quarterback came to be in the bathroom of the Capital City nightclub in Milledgeville, Ga., very differently in the second interview than in the first. And she remembered details in the first interview about what transpired in the bathroom that she told police she could not recall in the second.

An audio recording of the first interview and the video tape of the second were among dozens of recordings from the Roethlisberger case file that were released Wednesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But parts of the audio recording are difficult to hear in part because the recording is poor.

Neither the Pittsburgh Steelers nor the lawyer for the woman had any comment as media nationwide mined the 50-plus discs for new details about the case involving the superstar quarterback and posted clips on the Internet.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not identify accusers in sexual assault cases.

Of all the interviews, the accuser's are the most compelling, since for the first time the public is able to hear her speak and see her image, albeit with her face blurred by the authorities. It is also the most critical, since only two people know what, if anything, really went on inside the nightclub bathroom -- the woman and Mr. Roethlisberger.

At one point she calls herself "stupid" for going to a back room with him.

The 28-year-old quarterback spoke with authorities only briefly at the beginning of the investigation and never sat down for a formal interview. He has denied any criminal wrongdoing but has not publicly told his side of the story.

After a thorough investigation, the top local prosecutor declined to press charges against Mr. Roethlisberger, citing a lack of DNA evidence, a desire by the woman to not go forward with the case and inconsistent statements by the accuser.

A hospital examination of the woman found a superficial laceration, bruising and slight bleeding in the genital area, but a doctor could not say whether they were evidence of an assault or sexual activity.

An initial police report states "Once there she stated the suspect asked her for sex. At this time it is unclear to what happened after this point due to the complainant's recollection being foggy from to her intoxication level."

In the audio recording of the earlier interview, the woman sounds raspy, frequently mumbles and does not deny that she's still intoxicated.

The woman's friends told authorities that she had been drinking throughout the night, starting at a friend's birthday party earlier in the evening and then while bar-hopping in downtown Milledgeville.

At the conclusion of the interview, he asks her if she can write a statement.

"I know you have said you are slightly intoxicated right now. Are you of enough of a sound mind to write us a statement of what happened?" the officer asks.

"I mean I feel like I'm enough to understand that I shouldn't have done that," she said.

Throughout the interview, she reiterates to the officer that she told Mr. Roethlisberger, "I really don't think this is OK."

She said that she and Mr. Roethlisberger went into the restroom, a cramped space with a single commode.

"I was like, 'Well, I need to go to the bathroom, let's go to the bathroom.' So I went to the bathroom," she said.

"He was like, 'OK, well, let's have sex.' And I was like, 'Um, [unintelligible] a good idea.'... And he said, 'No, it's really OK, I have a lot of people here. It's OK.' He said, 'Um, it's really OK.' And I said, "I really don't think it's OK.' And he said, 'No, it is.' "

"And he just, like, started trying to have sex with me. So he had sex with me. I feel like it was three seconds, but I was drunk so I don't really know."

In the videotaped interview, hours later, the 20-year-old sophomore at Georgia College & State University speaks more clearly, liberally sprinkling her sentences with "like" and "you know."

She appears to be unsettled only at the beginning of the session as she sits down in a folding chair and lets out a big sigh. For the next 11 minutes, she speaks with composure, neither halting nor breaking down and not shrinking from graphic questions. There are no angry words or tears.

Seated across a table from a detective with the Milledgeville Police Department, the woman did not use the word rape, although authorities characterized the case as a rape investigation.

But she claimed that Mr. Roethlisberger had unprotected sex with her despite her protests.

And, in the video taped interview, she claims she was escorted to the hallway that led to the bathroom by one of his bodyguards inside the Capital City club March 5. In the previous interview she never mentions being escorted into the hallway.

Authorities later identified the person as Anthony J. Barravecchio, a friend of Mr. Roethlisberger and a Coraopolis policeman. He has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney.

The woman said also told police in the later interview that she tried to get away from Mr. Roethlisberger as soon as he allegedly approached her with his genitals exposed. Then, she said, he followed her into the pitch-black bathroom, shutting the door behind them. She recalled none of these details in the earlier interview.

"I was like, 'No, this is not right.' Like, 'I don't agree with this.' I got up and I, like, went to the first door that I saw, which happened to be, like, a bathroom and he, like, followed me in and shut the door," said the woman.

"That's when he proceeded to have sex with me and the whole time I said, 'No, we really don't need to do this, this isn't OK.' Like, 'We shouldn't be doing this.' Then he just like got up and left and then, like, I walked out, and that's when my friends, like, ran up to me and we left. And we went to the nearest cop car that we saw."

Mr. Roethlisberger and his accuser bumped into each other several times at various bars.

"We turned around and my friend was like, 'Oh my gosh, that's Ben Roethlisberger.' So we were like, 'Oh, cool.' So we took pictures with him. He seemed really, like, nice at first."

She described how she and her friends wore provocative name tags. She and Mr. Roethlisberger talked about the tags, prompting him to make a crude remark.

Eventually, both ended up at Capital City, where Mr. Roethlisberger and his friends ensconced themselves in a backroom VIP lounge. Men were kept out, but the drinks and the women flowed. The woman said Mr. Roethlisberger offered her and her friends shots of alcohol.

"He was like, 'Here, y'all, this is for you. Here's all these shots,' " she said.

Eventually, the woman said, things took a dark turn.

"We were taking shots and then his, one of his bodyguards came and, like, didn't grab my arm but, like, was like, 'Hey, come here.' Took me to this back, like, door, like of this hallway. He, like, took me back there and I was like, 'OK.' And it was, like, really weird, like, how he did it. He was just like, 'Hey, come here,' and I was like, 'OK.' I didn't know what he was doing. It was really weird. But I was just like, 'OK.' Like, I don't even know why I went. That was stupid but ...

"Went back there. He, like, had me sit at this stool. And then three seconds later, Ben comes back there. His penis is already out of his pants and I was like, 'No, this is not right.' Like, 'I don't agree with this.' "

One of the woman's friends, Nicole Biancofiore, described the encounter with the bodyguard this way:

"She was like 'Oh, OK, you know,' kind of like, 'He wants to talk to me, cool.' But then we saw Ben go back there and by now everybody had heard of, like, his reputation. And so we saw Ben go back there and then the door closed behind him."

The woman also remembered more details about what transpired in the first interview than in the second.

In the earlier interview, the woman claimed that they had sex when she was seated on the toilet.

The officer asked, "During this, uh, intercourse, were y'all laying on the floor, were you sitting in a chair, were you up against a sink, were you standing up?"

"I was sitting on the toilet," she said.

"While you were sitting on the toilet?"

"Mm ... hm,"

"Were you sitting on the toilet like normal?"

"Yeah."

"And he was still able to penetrate you from that (unintelligible)?"

"Yeah."

But in the later interview, she failed to recall that part of the story.

"Let me ask you what position he had you in," the Milledgeville detective asked in the first interview.

"I honestly don't know. I was so, like, frazzled. I didn't know what to do. I was just, like, sitting there and I was, like, 'We really don't need to do this.' Because the entire time his [genitals were] out of his pants, and I was, like, 'This really isn't OK,' you know. It was, like, it just happened so fast."

"You don't know what kind of position you were?" the detective asked.

"I don't even remember."

"You don't remember?"

"No. It was just like 'cause the whole time I was just, like, scared. Like it's this big man. And I'm, like, trying to like get away and he, like, shut the door behind me. And I was just, like, weird, and he ... I really don't know."

Mr. Roethlisberger is 6 feet 5 and 241 pounds. The woman is 5 feet 4 and 145 pounds.

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