Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Call to Escort Service Began a Night of Trouble at Duke
New York Times ^ | April 22, 2006 | DUFF WILSON and JULIET MACUR

Posted on 04/23/2006 9:46:36 AM PDT by VRWCer

DURHAM, N.C., April 22 — The Duke University lacrosse team's troubles began with a phone call.

A team captain using an assumed name called an escort service to hire two exotic dancers for a party on March 13. Last week, two Duke players were indicted (snip)

To all but some of the people at the party, the truth of what happened that night to one of the dancers, who accused three white players of raping her in a bathroom, is a mystery.

Mr. Nifong says a sexual assault occurred, based on hospital records and the account of the accuser, who is black. A second dancer and a neighbor corroborated some of the accuser's details.

Defense lawyers say the accuser was drunk when she arrived at the party, and fabricated the assault. Taxi and bank receipts and dormitory access records prove that Mr. Seligmann could not have raped the woman, his lawyer says. (snip)

About 8:30 p.m., a 27-year-old single mother of two answered her phone. That woman, a Durham native, was enrolled at North Carolina Central, a historically black college on the south side of town. Its patchy grass and simple brick buildings are a world away from Duke.

When she arrived about 11:30 p.m., she was wearing a negligee and shiny white high heels,... (snip)

The accuser said later that both women re-entered the house after one player apologized for the behavior during their dance. She said two men then pulled her into a bathroom, locked the door and said, "Sweetheart, you can't leave."

It was then, she told the police, that Mr. Seligmann forced her to perform oral sex, and Mr. Finnerty raped and sodomized her and the third suspect strangled her, according to a transcript of a photo identification session with police on April 4. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; escortservice; lacrosse; stripper
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-157 last
To: TheSpottedOwl

To put a delicate face on a rather crude event. I think a man needs a bit more room to apply his reproductive wand than a woman needs to apply her mascara wand. Especially when there is a struggle going on. Would you and your friends been able to do your toilet while raising a ruckus? I doubt it.


141 posted on 04/24/2006 9:30:32 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies]

To: Howlin

I wonder if anyone in the media one will dare mention the anti-semitism that is part of radical black culture.


142 posted on 04/24/2006 9:35:15 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies]

To: lastchance

Really. Maybe I should request it from the library. It helps to have some kind of a reference point. Do you know what the subject of the book is?


143 posted on 04/24/2006 12:54:01 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 140 | View Replies]

To: TheSpottedOwl

I think it deals with contemporary college life. With an emphasis on such things as hooking up and other acts of self dignity open to the modern coed. ( sarcasm).


144 posted on 04/24/2006 1:37:29 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 143 | View Replies]

To: lastchance
I am not that familiar with the various state laws

Go to www.packing.org

State law summaries here

145 posted on 04/24/2006 1:56:22 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 139 | View Replies]

To: Accygirl
I'm sorry, but let's defend the little frat boys instead of waiting for a trial.

So it's OK to railroad little frat boys, then?

146 posted on 04/24/2006 1:58:14 PM PDT by dirtboy (Illegal is to immigration is as methyl is to alcohol - both make a good thing toxic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Accygirl
However, I must admit that I am biased because I did go to this place called college and I was unfortunately privvy to some of the nasty behavior of this type of frat guy..

Ah, so therefore all frat boys are rapists until proven innocent?

147 posted on 04/24/2006 1:59:32 PM PDT by dirtboy (Illegal is to immigration is as methyl is to alcohol - both make a good thing toxic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: dirtboy

She's not going to answer you. We scared her away last night.......I guess she's afraid of more than nasty frat boys.....


148 posted on 04/24/2006 2:01:32 PM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 147 | View Replies]

To: sissyjane
She's not going to answer you. We scared her away last night.......

I checked the posting guidelines and there's no FR penalty for piling on clueless idiots. :^)

149 posted on 04/24/2006 2:02:48 PM PDT by dirtboy (Illegal is to immigration is as methyl is to alcohol - both make a good thing toxic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 148 | View Replies]

To: dirtboy

Just didn't want you to hold your breath waiting for clueless to answer.


150 posted on 04/24/2006 2:04:19 PM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 149 | View Replies]

To: LK44-40
And then there is the JonBenet case.
151 posted on 04/24/2006 2:24:47 PM PDT by Jane Austen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 80 | View Replies]

To: lastchance

Lol! Try putting on your mascara without a stray elbow sending the darn brush straight into your eye. Those strippers are lying.

I've been thinking, and there should have been a shower curtain ripped off the rail, holes kicked in the walls, and other signs that a struggle took place. I'm waiting for the DA to show this evidence.


152 posted on 04/24/2006 2:28:06 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 141 | View Replies]

To: lastchance
I think it deals with contemporary college life. With an emphasis on such things as hooking up and other acts of self dignity open to the modern coed. ( sarcasm).

Not worth digging around for my library card.

153 posted on 04/24/2006 2:31:52 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 144 | View Replies]

To: TheSpottedOwl
Tom Wolfe book that came out about around a year and a half ago about the excesses of college lives. Charlotte Simmons is the a country girl who goes to college and basically caves into peer pressure. Hoyt is a hotshot frat boy who basically uses her to get what he wants.

It's kind of timely when discussing the Duke Lacrosse case, because Tom Wolfe based Dupont University on Duke (ie elite university with a famous basketball team). It's a good book (very graphic sex scenes though), and it does a nice job discussing the excesses of college life. It got "lukewarm" reviews, because it points out some ugly realities about college life.
154 posted on 04/24/2006 5:03:30 PM PDT by Accygirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies]

To: Accygirl

Jeeez, life is ugly. Parents have a moral obligation to point that out. I never got to attend college as a young adult, so I can't comment on excesses, but I've heard about them.

Thank you for the synopsis.


155 posted on 04/25/2006 5:09:01 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 154 | View Replies]

To: Mongeaux

I had somebody try to tell me that the "lineup" as described is legit because she accused three people but there were ~46 in the team photos, therefore as a matter of definition she was in fact shown 43 pictures of people who were not suspects, so what's the problem?

I wonder if this will be Nifong's argument.


156 posted on 04/25/2006 4:55:08 PM PDT by jiggyboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: jiggyboy
I had somebody try to tell me that the "lineup" as described is legit because she accused three people but there were ~46 in the team photos, therefore as a matter of definition she was in fact shown 43 pictures of people who were not suspects, so what's the problem?

Well, the victim is supposed to be shown pictures of people who are NOT suspects mixed in with the pictures the students - all of whom were potential suspects. That way she cannot pick three at random and claim "They did it" and have those three face legal sanction. If there were a bunch of pictures of cops, for example, mixed in - she would have a 50/50 chance of picking a cop instead of a student on each pic. If she did, you'd know she was lying.
157 posted on 04/25/2006 9:04:46 PM PDT by Mongeaux (''I would sooner be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone directory," W.F. Buckley)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 156 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-157 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson