Posted on 04/25/2006 3:36:40 AM PDT by Perdogg
The stripper who charges she was raped by Duke University lacrosse players is so traumatized she sometimes screams at the sight of white men in the street, a new report says. The accuser is staying with friends and only occasionally calls relatives, amid threats from Duke supporters and white supremacists, Essence magazine reported.
"I know she feels alone," the woman's ex-husband told Essence. "She doesn't know who to trust. That's why she's running."
Meanwhile, a lawyer for one of two Duke lacrosse players charged in the rape demanded that prosecutors turn over the accuser's medical, legal and education records for use in attacking her credibility.
When the woman does call family members, she sounds frightened and refuses to let them contact her, relatives said.
"Nobody has seen her. She needs some help," the woman's aunt told the magazine. "That girl needs some professional help."
The stripper, a student at a mostly black college in Durham, N.C., where Duke is also located, told police that three white Duke players raped her during a wild off-campus party March 13.
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I don't think there is yet anything that proves anything she says happened. You stick a skirt on a bull and it could look similar to that lap dancer. Looks like an ugly guy with a wig.
Nifong got what he wanted, elected. What a jackass. This guy can't win a case even trying it in the press. His ID was fatally flawed and probably gets thrown out.
Where is the single black player?
Wasn't he there? Why aren't we hearing from him?
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