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INDIANAPOLIS -- Former Notre Dame linebacker and NFL prospect Prince Shembo admitted Saturday he was the player investigated in the 2010 case of a St. Mary's College student who alleged she was inappropriately touched.

"I'm innocent," Shembo said. "I didn't do anything. I'm, pretty much, I'm the one who ended it and pretty much told the girl that we should stop, that we shouldn't be doing this and that's what happened. So, I don't know."

The incident occurred on Aug. 31, 2010. According to ABC News, Seeberg reported it on Sept. 6, 2010. She committed suicide four days later.

Attention, Bears general manager Phil Emery and 31 other NFL peers considering drafting Shembo in the late rounds: Keep digging. Go beyond the surface-level interview Shembo conducted at the NFL scouting combine. See if Shembo indeed established a pattern of disciplinary problems back home in Charlotte, N.C., that Notre Dame coaches ignored. Find the high school teacher whom Shembo allegedly threw a desk at after having his cellphone taken away, as Politics Daily reported. Chase the rumors about Shembo's past, which reporters never had context to pursue or report as the media concealed the identity of someone not charged with a crime as a matter of fairness.

Now that Shembo chose to come forward Saturday at the NFL combine in Indianapolis, evaluating his character issues also becomes fair.