Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report

AP ^ | Apr 27 2006 | AARON BEARD

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke's lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men, filing a 1996 complaint claiming she had been assaulted three years earlier when she was 14.

Authorities in nearby Creedmoor said Thursday that none of the men named in the decade-old report was ever charged but they didn't have details why.

A phone number for the accuser has been disconnected and her family declined to comment to The Associated Press. But relatives told Essence magazine in an online story this week that the woman declined to pursue the case out of fear for her safety.

The existence of the report surprised defense attorneys, one of whom has sought information about the accuser's past for use in attacking her credibility.

"That's the very first I've heard of that," said Bill Cotter, the attorney for indicted lacrosse player Collin Finnerty, who along with fellow Duke sophomore Reade Seligmann is charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping and sexual assault. He declined additional comment.

Attorneys for Seligmann asked the court this week to order the state to turn over the accuser's medical, legal and education records, and hold a pretrial hearing to "determine if the complaining witness is even credible enough to provide reliable testimony."

The accuser, a 27-year-old student at North Carolina Central University in Durham, told police she was hired to perform as a stripper at a March 13 party, where she was raped by three men.

According to the Creedmoor police report in August 1996, when the woman was 18, she told officers she was raped and beaten by three men "for a continual time" in 1993, when she was 14. She told police she was attacked at an "unspecified location" on a street in Creedmoor, a town 15 miles northeast of Durham.

The report lists the names of the three men, but no other details. Creedmoor police Chief Ted Pollard said Thursday he had no recollection of the report, and his staff has been unable to find any additional information about it.

Durham police Officer Brian Bishop, who interviewed the accuser in 1996 while working on the Creedmoor force, said Thursday he had a vague recollection of the report but couldn't remember any details.

When asked about the accuser's previous report of rape, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong declined to comment.

Before Seligmann and Finnerty were indicted, attorneys for the players pointed to the accuser's criminal history when answering questions about their clients' legal troubles. The woman pleaded guilty to several misdemeanors in 2002.

[mewzilla]

Wouldn't it be helpful if the Police Chief was on duty, not out on personal leave during this investigation?!? What's up with that?!?

Darn good question. And who appointed Nifong, BTW, anyone know?

[maggief]

Easley.

http://www.governor.state.nc.us/News_FullStory.asp?id=1993

[Alia]

P.S. I wasn't referring to The Abigail Adams (John Adam's Wife).

[mewzilla]

Thanks!

Way to go, Easley!

[Alia]

This case brought against the Duke Players is.. DISGUSTING. From start to finish. It's ludicrous. It's hidious that such BS should be playing out in our court systems, not to mention the unmitigated crap being foisted on the public by feminist-cult members known as Female "spokespersons, newsies and anchors".

[maggief]

Here's more on Nifong ...


http://www.mikenifong.com/news08.php

[Alia]

There was no case without her cooperation

Exactly. The same holds true for domestic violence cases. Woman calls 911 says she's being beaten by her boyfriend. Unless the woman PRESS charges against the guy nothing otherwise goes on.

Additionally, say she does fill out a full report. She is then asked again if she wishes to press charges. If she doesn't, then nothing goes forward.

[Alia]

The accuser was in high school when she met the man, McNeil said. He was controlling, jealous and abusive, McNeil said. He would beat her, and she would hide the bruises from her parents.

And her parents let her "date" this guy? What's the age of sexual consent for girls in NC???? Egads..

[Alia]

We still don't know who drove Crystal to the house and what color the arrival car was

No, we don't. And then there's Bissey's account of witnessing them getting out of a "car" together.

From all available evidence, I think they arrived separately, Crystal got into Kim's car. And they then exited the car together to go to the engagement.

[OakOak]

3 points.

1) There are many things that also point in the direction the first rape did not occur. The Police & DA did not investigate the crime - so, a judgement was made regarding the likelyhood it occured. She did not provide info the investigating authorities asked her to provide. She stated it happened at an undisclosed location. She said it went on for a continuing time. And her Father plainly stated in a recorded interview that "they didn't do anything to her". He did indicate they held her against her will.

2) If we use criminal records to indicate the likelyhood
of whether this first group guys (when she was 14) raped her, then the 2nd dancer could be a suspect. The accuser's ex-husband has a criminal record (he admitted it to a reporter). I'd be willing to bet the accuser's current boyfriend has a criminal record. The accuser was charged with, what, 8 felonies. A criminal record, in of itself, doesn't help us with what happened between those 4 when she was 14. And, I think her ex-husband doesn't have any credibility or believability. He has a criminal record and
the entire community in that area supports the accused.

3) Most importantly, IF she was beaten and gang-raped by 3 men for a continuing time at an undisclosed location that doesn't really help the prosecution. There's the phenomena of PROJECTION. Someone projecting hate, anger, or blame at another person based on their past experiences and relationships. I knew a guy and, out of the blue, a neighbor reported him for repeatedly raping his 9 year old daughter. She said he had done it continually and even after the investigation was launched it was still going
on. He was removed from the household at that point. The daughter denied it vigorously and two extensive forensic rape exams showed absolutely nothing.

With being kept out of his house and being treated like a criminal, of course, he hired a lawyer. The lawyer hired a Private Investigator. They found that the woman had reported another man, in another state, with the exact same charges. Further investigation revealed the woman had been raped by a family member in her childhood and she was projecting this on other families when she saw an unhappy girl. The girl was seen unhappy for a short time by this neighbor after the girl was grounded. The woman seeing the unhappy girl was convinced she knew what was going on in the house and contacted authorities. The initial report was made anonymously. When the authorities interviewed neighbors, the woman said YES, I have seen things that made me suspicious when her suspicions dribbled out, it became apparent that this was the reporter - even to the authorities.

[Alia]

What a horrid story. But you are absolutely right about "PROJECTION". Personal projection; and media projection.

In the SF Bay Area when the "spanking is child abuse" Nazi's were making the rounds on everything "media", no child could being having a tantrum without some "projectionist" calling the police. It was a nightmare for the police and the people being "accused".

[maggief]

JUST ANOTHER STATUTE AT LAW

COMMENTARY ON THE NORTH CAROLINA

GENERAL STATUTES OF INTEREST TO

THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY

Ralph B. Strickland, Jr.

Agency Legal Specialist

North Carolina Justice Academy

G.S. 14-27.2

G.S. 14-27.4

G.S. 14-27.7A

July 1996 Volume 1 Number 5

EXCERPT

The age of consent in North Carolina (the age at which a juvenile can consent to vaginal intercourse or a sexual act with a person older than the juvenile, and the older person will NOT be guilty of statutory rape or sex offense) is now 16 years of age. Let me repeat that: the age of consent is now 16 years of age. Prior to October 1, 1995, the age of consent was 13 years of age. Because of the above three quoted statutes which are controlling on this issue, sometimes the older person will be guilty of a Class B1 felony, and on other occasions will be guilty of a Class C felony. More on that later. Just remember: the age of consent in all cases, situations and circumstances is now always 16 YEARS OF AGE!



http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/!jul96.htm

[maggief]

Further investigation revealed the woman had been raped by a family member in her childhood ...

Makes one wonder if there are parallels to this story.

[Alia]

Thank YOU, maggief, for digging this up!

1. Rape is forcible and nonconsentual vaginal intercourse. Vaginal intercourse is just what you think it is : penetration of the vagina by the penis. It is also something much less - the slightest penetration of the vulva by the penis is sufficient to charge rape! As a matter of fact, rape can occur even if the hymen remains intact! See State v. Murry, 277 N.C. 197, 176 S.E.2d 738 (1970).

2. Sexual act: G.S. 14-27.1 defines sexual act as “...cunnilingus [oral sex performed upon a female’s vulva], fellatio [oral sex performed upon a male’s penis], analingus [application of the human tongue or lips to the human anus or rectum], or anal intercourse [the slightest penetration of the human anus or rectum by the penis]. Sexual act also means the penetration, however slight, by any object into the genital or anal opening of another person’s body: provided, that it shall be an affirmative defense that the penetration was for accepted medical purposes.”

Statutory rape and sex offenses crimes can be divided into the following charges:

[Alia]

Hoping you will correct my understanding of the facts if I've gotten these wrong.

10 years ago AV, in the year 1996 (the year age of consent laws changed to "16" and not 13), reported she'd been raped by 3 men when she was 14, uh 13?.

That she'd been raped in 1993 (the year in which consensual sex laws was 13).

hm.

[Alia]

Yes, I've been wondering that for a while. The Dad says "nothing" happened (earlier allegations of "gang" rape). But then claims to have seen how banged up she was.

AV's mother says it really did happen.

In re the current situation, dad claims she came home calm, fine, and asked to store her CAR. Later claims something else.

[maggief]

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:xKRiN9PVtvgJ:www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2692895p-9129630c.html+nifong+freda+-lacrosse&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

DA's policy takes a name
In Durham, it's 'Freda Black Rule'

Published: Aug 5, 2005


Freda Black, left, is running against incumbent Durham DA Mike Nifong.

By BENJAMIN NIOLET, Staff Writer

DURHAM -- The policy document signed by employees of the Durham District Attorney's Office is titled "Personal Relationships with Criminal Defendants."

Most at the office call it something else: "The Freda Black Rule."

Shortly after Mike Nifong took office as district attorney in April, he prohibited his employees from having sexual or social relationships with criminal defendants, Nifong said in an interview Thursday. The policy was in direct response to a 2003 case in which a defendant had a relationship with Black, then a prosecutor in charge of domestic violence court.

The defendant was granted deferred prosecution for violating a domestic violence protection order obtained by his former wife.

After the policy's unofficial name appeared Thursday in the Herald-Sun of Durham, Nifong said naming the policy after Black was not a jab at the former prosecutor, who has announced her plans to run against him for the job.

"Had I known that she was going to be outside the office running for district attorney, I would have probably never let anybody refer to it like that," Nifong said. "It was a shorthand way to refer to what everybody knew was the genesis of the rule."

Black responded to requests for an interview with a written statement.

"Mr. Nifong has wasted no time in a feeble attempt to turn this race into a mudslinging contest," she said in the statement. "His abuse of the facts is not unexpected. As to my supposed involvement in the matter, there was none."

Black, who as an assistant district attorney prosecuted high-profile cases including the murder trial of columnist Mike Peterson, quit the office shortly after Nifong was appointed to the position.

(snip)

[maggief]

Sorry ga girl. I meant to ping GAgal.

:)

[TheSpottedOwl]

McNeil said the incident left rope burns on one of the woman's wrists. She also said lit cigarettes were pushed into her skin, leaving scars on her legs and buttocks. The scars were still visible when they met, he said.

My God. Is this the truth? I'm still trying to catch up on this thread, so I'm a day late, dollar short.

If she was actually gang raped at one point in her life, that would leave some scars alright : (

[maggief]

We don't and probably won't learn the entire story. So far were only seeing snippets, and they are conflicting.

Her mother said she was under psychiatric care for a year, but a few years later the fiance/ex-husband said the AV was still traumatized. Why wouldn't he suggest she seek additional psychiatric help? Filing three-year-old charges may have added to whatever trauma she experienced and still feeling.