TIFTON — After being arrested for simple battery, Ocilla’s Justin Anderson will not be suspended by University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt.
The Georgia coach told reporters in Hoover, Ala., Thursday, Anderson and fellow Georgia Bulldog offensive lineman Trinton Sturdivant will not be suspended, due to their arrest June 30 on simple battery charges.
Anderson and Sturdivant were arrested and charged with simple battery after touching a woman without her consent. The incident occurred around 1:45 a.m. the morning of June 27 at the East Campus Village dormitory on the university campus.
The arrest affidavit from the University of Georgia police department stated the player "did intentionally make physical contact of an insulting nature with (the woman), who he does not know, when he approached her and touched her stomach."
Reportedly, the woman said the players wanted to know if she was pregnant, and after confirming she was, they touched her stomach and began following her.
The woman in the report is not a student at Georgia, but was visiting a friend that is a student. Saying she did not Anderson and Sturdivant were football players, the woman reportedly identified them from pictures from the Facebook Web site.
“I’m handling their situation in-house,” Richt told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday, while he was in Hoover for the annual Southeastern Conference football media days. “Unless something else comes up, it’s not going to be a playing time situation.”
That means after signing with Georgia in February of 2006, Anderson will finally get to play in a game when the Bulldogs host the Georgia Southern Eagles Aug. 30. Anderson’s first year was spent at Hargraves Military Academy in Virginia. He then spent the 2007 season as a redshirt freshman, even though he did dress for a majority of the Georgia games.
At the end of spring practice, the Ocilla native was listed as the first-string right guard.
Sturdivant started every game last season for Georgia as a true freshman.
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