Liverpool boss Rodgers' son, others cleared of sexual assault charges

The footballer sun of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has reportedly been cleared of the charges of sexually assaulting a drunken teenager.

Anton Rodgers and three of his teammates from Brighton and Hove Albion, who were accused of attacking a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room, were acquitted following a retrial and were also found not guilty of voyeurism, The Sun reports.

According to the report, Rodgers and his teammates Lewis Dunk, George Barker and former team-mate Steve Cook, who now plays for Bournemouth, were accused of assaulting the drunken teenager in July 2011 after they met her in a club while celebrating victory in a local cup.

However, the woman later admitted that she told a string of lies before and after the alleged assault, including a bogus claim she had been attacked in the street and another that her father was involved in a car crash.

Although the woman had said that she woke up at the hotel to find her strapless dress pulled down and said she saw explicit pictures on Rodgers' mobile phone, police reportedly found only one photograph on Barker's phone, showing shaving foam spelling out GB on the sleeping woman's thigh.

According to Barker and Rodgers, the woman had willingly joined them, adding that she climbed into bed and started kissing them, while Dunk and Cook said they were sleeping on the floor and did not get involved with the woman.

However, despite her confession, the woman kept on insisting that she had been humiliated by the sportsmen, the report added.