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Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report
AP ^ | Apr 27 2006 | AARON BEARD

Posted on 04/27/2006 4:27:11 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
If the parents are not guilty of aiding and abetting a crime through non-reportage, they should have been counseled by SOMEONE WISE around them: to not talk to ANY press. Not even Essence.

Egads..

1,341 posted on 04/29/2006 7:46:42 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Howlin
Did you catch that part of the article wherein Nifgong asserts, uh, this wasn't meant as a dig to Freda Black?

Can you see the "yeah, right" look on my face as I post this?

1,342 posted on 04/29/2006 7:48:19 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Alia

I don't think insurance pays for extended periods of therapy any more. I don't think they were paying out a lot ten years ago either. Anybody know what kind of psychiatric treatment is available for people with limited/no income?


1,343 posted on 04/29/2006 7:51:30 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

IF anything, insurance companies have expanded upon their "mental health" coverage; not the other way around. Most HMO's have a 1 to 2 year window of coverage. They can then refer "low-incomers" to other "gratis" organizations after that.


1,344 posted on 04/29/2006 7:55:51 AM PDT by Alia
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
I saw on another board that the father was described in a report as only 125 lbs and frail. The reason suggested why the family didn't clue him in on the full story in the 1993 event is they were afraid he would confront the then-boyfriend and get hurt.

If the family was this adept at "working around daddy", mother and daughter could have very successfully gone to the police and pursued the case -- and yet kept daddy in his okay mode.

1,345 posted on 04/29/2006 7:57:46 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Alia

Do we have any reason to think her mother is capable of acting responsibly?

I'm sure you would not allow your 13-year-old HS freshman/sophomore daughter to "date" a > 21-year-old man.

There is nothing in the known circumstances of this case to support the belief that either parent is minimally competent at parenting.


1,346 posted on 04/29/2006 8:05:10 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Howlin

"He's a very vendictive petty little man."

(whose prostate can no longer perform multiple contractions)


1,347 posted on 04/29/2006 8:06:54 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: maggief; Howlin; Locomotive Breath; OakOak; Jezebelle; Alia; Sacajaweau; SirJohnBarleycorn; All

Here's an interesting article regarding interracial rape. Free Republic is mentioned in the comment below the article.

http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/duke_race_and_rape/


1,348 posted on 04/29/2006 8:08:14 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: toldyou

Amy Fisher admits using ecstacy as a recreational drug when she shot her boyfriend's wife. My guess is the stripper is a pretty heavy user too if reports that suddenly she was out of it.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623701/posts


1,349 posted on 04/29/2006 8:10:25 AM PDT by Peach
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To: maggief

The accuser was in high school when she met the man, McNeil said.

If he was at least seven years older the she would have been 10 or eleven at the time, at best.
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No, no, no, you are misreading what McNeil said. The ACCUSER, ie the woman was in high school when she met the man. It is looking more and more like she claimed rape to her fiancee, if not the police, when she was 16 years old and in high school. This is a different rape claim than she made in 1996 claiming she was raped in 1993.

The next bombshell will be if she claimed rape at age 16 to some authority, the police, someone at her high school etc. To me this is what the defense demand for information was seeking.


1,350 posted on 04/29/2006 8:18:17 AM PDT by JLS
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To: Alia

I had no idea they had increased psychiatric coverage to that extent. Was that much coverage available ten years ago?

Another question: has *anybody* tracked down the current boyfriend? If all her old beaus have criminal records and beat her, no doubt the current one does too.

Current boyfriend is the only one not blabbing to the press. Why? Perhaps he's involved up to his ears? Perhaps he's a dealer? Perhaps he beat the AV the night of the party? Maybe current boy friend is a policeman? politician?


1,351 posted on 04/29/2006 8:27:54 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Perhaps he beat the AV the night of the party?

good chance, because she left her money bahind in the house.....


1,352 posted on 04/29/2006 8:31:27 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: ladyjane

Current boyfriend is the only one not blabbing to the press.



You are right!
Current boyfriend and siblings.


1,353 posted on 04/29/2006 8:32:47 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ladyjane

Sure would like to get hold of a Hillsborough yearbook and check some names in the NC Offender search.


1,354 posted on 04/29/2006 8:34:21 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ladyjane

<< Another question: has *anybody* tracked down the current boyfriend? >>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1623046/posts?page=40#40

toldyou posted the above in another thread

go to the link, and then click on the link giving personal info on the accuser.

I wonder if the guy who shows up on the reverse inquiry for CGM's phone number is the current boyfriend?


1,355 posted on 04/29/2006 8:37:15 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Probably NOT her boyfriend -

veromi search shows that guy is 72 years old!


1,356 posted on 04/29/2006 8:43:34 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: JLS

I did read it wrong, thanks the correction.


1,357 posted on 04/29/2006 8:46:38 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn; Protect the Bill of Rights; Alia; SPOTTEDOWL

I don't think any sense can be made out of the father's comments. If the police were called would they have filed a report? Maybe dad did pick her up in Creedmoor and lost his temper.

http://www.nbc17.com/news/9083147/detail.html

The woman's father told NBC17 that the 1993 incident occurred, saying police called him to pick her up from a house on Hillsboro Street in Creedmoor where the assault allegedly took place. He also continued to back his daughter’s allegations against the lacrosse players.

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/434044.html

Her father told The N&O in an interview Thursday that the rape didn't happen. But the father would not know because she never told him, McNeil said.

http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-729678.html

"They didn't do anything to her," the father told the Raleigh newspaper, adding that a group of men had picked her up from school in Durham, driven her to Granville County, and returned her home safely the same day.

http://www.newsobserver.com/799/story/433287.html

Asked Thursday if she was sexually assaulted, her father said, "I can't remember." In an interview with the News & Observer of Raleigh, posted Thursday night on the newspaper's Web site, he said the men "didn't do anything to her."


1,358 posted on 04/29/2006 8:48:14 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Well, she likes older men. ;oD


1,359 posted on 04/29/2006 8:53:03 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn; All

You are wading through a swamp.

Follow a path to higher ground.


1,360 posted on 04/29/2006 9:01:43 AM PDT by xoxoxox
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