Posted on 04/20/2006 6:54:31 AM PDT by mlc9852
The victim, a single mom who turned to exotic dancing to support her two kids, attends North Carolina Central University, a mostly black college in Durham.
She plans to keep a low profile until the students go on trial to avoid inflaming tensions in the black community, where opinion is running heavily against the privileged students.
One of the most hurtful things for the woman about the media circus surrounding the case, the cousin said, is the tendency to assume the worst about her because she is a stripper.
"She's a victim and she's a human being," the cousin said. "Her occupation couldn't justify that a crime like this was committed."
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He was never questioned or interviewed, if I understand correctly. He was simply arrested on her identification of some alleged scratch marks on his arm.
If a condom was used there are trace chemicals left behind. None were found.
The DA needs to be sued personally for this fiasco and so does the city or county he works for.
"Under Color of Authority"...covers a lot of ground.
I can't believe the audacity of some people.
"Just wondering how a person can be arrested if he has such a solid alibi?"
The primary is May 2nd. DA Nifong had PROMISED arrests in the media when this story first broke. Bottom line, he had to arrest multiple players before the primary.
Sad but true.
Excellent article by Ann Coulter where she points out that there are consequences for vulgar choices made in life no matter what side of the fence you're standing on.
I think the thing I am having difficulty with in this case (and I can't believe how much time I've wasted being bothered by it) is trying to separate my disgust for the media from what has become a disdain for the accusor. I don't know if this woman was raped -- and I shouldn't pretend that I do -- but I can so much more easily put myself in position of the accused lacrosse players and the talking heads have just continually pounded these guys.
One of the woman attorneys on tv last night said that something awful happened at that house because they cleared out when they heard the cops were coming, like this was some type of sign that something awful happened there. I've been at a number of parties in college where we fled because we heard the cops were coming only because people were underaged drinking. Why stay there and get caught when you can flee?
I'm also not sure that we should be plastering the alleged victim's face all over the news (which obviously they aren't) but it's pretty scary when any woman can accuse me of rape and I'll be incarcerated and paraded around as an accused rapist whether I did it or not. I can't remember something that has made me want to throw the remote control through the tv screen as much as watching some of the reporting of this case.
He is not the father of either of her children.
So forty something young adults were forced to give DNA samples based on the accusation of this entoxicated/stoned stripper.
In addition, it turns out at least one of the two young male students arrested was falsely accused and had to have his family raise close to half a milliondollars to keep him out of jail.
The Lacrosse season has been canceled. The coach has resigned. Duke students are realizing that not only the Duke name has been sullied.
If it turns out, this entire event was a hoax that was permitted to go forward so a DA could be re elected, who will be held accountable?
Will the stripper go to jail?
Will the DA go to jail?
How many millions in damages are going to be sought by all the people involved in this matter, if it turns out to be a lie?
You don't know that.
A couple of players hire a stripper and you conclude all members of the team are bad guys? even those who aren't there?
They aren't his kids. She has too illegitimate children. One for a guy she met in the military, and another from the next guy she met in the military.
Or you could call her 'The Town Bicycle' cause everyone rides her.
The LAX players likely fled because the skank told them they better pay up or she was going to call her pimp.
ping for a later read
Shoot. She's got a fine weave. That didn't grow in the backyard.
Yes.
A guy who would place any kind of trust in a stripper is a dumb sap begging to be taken advantage of.
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