Posted on 04/12/2006 12:21:32 PM PDT by zaxxon
An anonymous staff member is giving a detailed account of what happened the night a stripper said she was raped.
"She was hysterical. She was crying. She was pretty banged up. She said she was sexually assaulted, but she didn't say by whom," the staff member told ESPN The Magazine's Eric Adelson.
The staff member went on to say the sexual assault nurse found injuries in the woman's pelvic area.
"She never said one thing about Duke, any athlete or anything," the source said. "She just kept hollering and screaming. She never said who did it."
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This is getting very confusing... who did the stripper attack?!
So? The Dinosaur Press has already convicted Duke guys for a rape and by gum, that's what we're gonna have!
I'm surprised the Rev. Jessie Jackson is not involved yet!
LOL
I wonder if the hospital did any blood tests to find out what chemicals this stripper was on.
Looks like the media is growing one heck of a case. Somebody needs to slap a gag order on everybody involved.
I thought he was getting involved. Seriously.
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Having worked for years in a large hospital's Emergency Room I can say that that's very unlikely in a case like this.
Having worked for years in a large hospital's Emergency Room I can say that that's very unlikely in a case like this.
Is anyone familiar with the behavior of people under the influence of meth?
The Kroger security guard said the woman looked quite intoxicated, but didn't smell any alcohol at all on her.
Here we have the woman photographed by the students apparently falling down drunk, passed out in the back yard, having to be helped into the car, and then at the Kroger parking lot practically immobile in the car and refusing to move.
Then, a couple of hours later in the hospital she is up and hysterical and screaming.
Could that be a sign of meth use? Or combining meth with alcohol? Her activity level seems to be like a sine wave.
Also, more detail ont the hospital visit here in this ESPN article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2404866
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A source has provided ESPN with a detailed account of the exotic dancer's arrival at the hospital the night of the alleged sexual assault at a party thrown by members of the Duke men's lacrosse team.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, was present at the hospital on the night of the alleged incident and says the woman was "beat up" but would not immediately divulge to anyone the identity of her alleged assailants.
"She was hysterical," the source said. "She was crying, she was pretty banged up. She said she was sexually assaulted, but she didn't say by whom."
The source says the woman entered the hospital well after midnight March 13 wearing a red nightgown and nothing on her feet. She was walking on her own, but there were bruises on her face, neck, and arms.
A triage nurse attended to her, but the woman did not want him to touch her because he was a man. She was then examined by a sexual assault nurse.
There were injuries to the woman's pelvic area, the source said.
According to the source, the woman did not immediately inform either the police or the hospital staff who inflicted the injuries to her.
"She never said one thing about Duke, any athlete or anything," the source said. "She just kept hollering and screaming. She never said who did it."
The woman was discharged after approximately five hours.
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Could it be...she was sooo high the Duke-ies kicked her out. She left, went down the street (not smart in Durham) and was a victim of a drive by rape. The high begins to lift, remembers the dancing / stripping engagement, and blames the Duke-ies.
She wouldn't be tested if she was yelling and hollering?
Well,I was in administration,so I can't speak with any enormous degree of credibility but I did see a lot in my 20+ years there.
My hunch is that she would have been seen as having a reaction,perhaps normal,perhaps abnormal,to having suffered an important mental (and,perhaps,physical) trauma.
If they found track marks on her,or dilated (or constricted) pupils or smelled alcohol on her breath they *might* have done a toxic screen her.
But keep this in mind: when a woman presents to an ER claiming to have been raped,the medical staff pretty much assumes that she's telling the truth.These staff members are much more comfortable cooperating with the police and prosecutors than with defense lawyers...if ya catch my drift.
Al Sharpton will be here Easter Sunday. :(
Can Jesse be far behind?
Even if, a short time earlier, she was reported to semi-comatose and under the influence of something?
Well, I think there are enough of them telling the truth that they should be given the benefit of the presumption that they're being truthful. It's the job of the police and prosecutor to sort out the criminal case.
I would think the medical facility would potentially expose itself to liability if it didn't give the alleged victim the presumption of being truthful.
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