Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report

AP ^ | Apr 27 2006 | AARON BEARD

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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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Freepmail

[maggief]

Hey! My hand was up. ;)

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I've been curious about this since the very early beginings when he claimed she came home calm, asked him to store her car, and then days later claims she was beat up "mighty bad", could barely walk."

The father definitely has problems with time and keeping his stories straight. Must be a family tradition. He will be useless to the prosecution.
Interviewed on Rita Cosby's show April 3, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12150698/ he gave a different version of when he first saw his daughter's " injuries."
The father said he saw his daughter at 11 am the morning after.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, she (INAUDIBLE) like she was in a lot of pain, and her face was swolled up. She had bruises on her eyes. And she just looked awful, and you look at her, you could tell she had been beaten up.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She looked like she had been in a fight. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the boxers on TV. She looked like she had been in a real good fight and lost.

[JLS]

Hey! My hand was up. ;)
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Me too, me too! :-)

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When was AV's supposed nervous breakdown over money?

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I'm checking something that ties into dates and maybe the family dynamics.

Be right back
:-)

[toldyou]

Didn't you say that in the police audio they asked about the kids at home?

[maggief]

last year

[maggief]

The "young 'uns"

[toldyou]

http://www.durhampolice.com/

[TheSpottedOwl]

The language is very offensive on that site. I didn't see a mention of Free Republic. The main article was very informative, however.

[maggief]

http://www.eghs.com/MediaLaw/open_meetings/articles/mn-jan03PoliceChief.htm

Police Chief Search Proves Importance of Openness
By Hugh Stevens
September 2002

EXCERPT

Chalmers, the favorite of his Durham police colleagues and a majority of the city council members, apparently was eliminated in early August when the Oldani Group, the search firm hired by the city, raised questions about his truthfulness. Oldani officials said that Chalmers had denied ever having been "arrested or convicted," but that he in fact had been arrested in 1982 on assault charges filed by his former wife, from whom he subsequently was divorced. Chalmers said he had misunderstood the question as asking whether he had been "arrested and convicted," and he had answered "no" because his wife had dropped the assault charge.

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And, she hide all of this abuse from her father?
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Also, it was not reported until three years later?
Where is the medical report from all this damage.

Mangum's ex also said Mangum was not a drinker and never lied either...we know that's not true.

I see the papers are trying to suggest the three did rape Mangum years ago, because they have GASP criminal records.
Unless their criminal records involve violence against women, then I say so what.
Mangum has a criminal record too, and so does her ex.

Now...a lot women in the sex industry have has some sexual abuse in their past...but that is mostly from family/friends when they were young kids.
Whether or not this is the reason for Mangum's breakdowns, and rape allegations, and freakouts..I have no idea.

Many people are sexually abused, but they do not go around lying and destroying people's lives.
Mangum will not get a pass from me on the lying about the LAX players regardless of what is in her past.

[TheSpottedOwl]

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."

This getting creepier as the days go by. Any other parent, and it would have been a "done deal", years ago.

[toldyou]

Oh my!

[Alia]

Time Magazine, quotes of the day

Thursday, Apr. 27, 2006
“They would have been in jail the same day it happened if she was white”

— Travis Mangum
The father of the exotic dancer who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, talking to TIME's Siobhan Morrissey

[There's millions of'em]

"...when he claimed she came home calm, asked him to store her car, and then days later claims she was beat up "mighty bad", could barely walk...

Pure speculation, but... perhaps she needed to hide her car so it wasn't "reposssed" (Does NC have those car title loan shops?), or so it wasn't chopped by her pimp since she was short on cash from the night's assignments.

Why would anyone hide their car?

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He's a real peice of work....sounds like pond scum to me.

[Alia]

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

I've seen nothing yet to understand that 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.

My daughters would be howling at the mere thought of me allowing such things. I'm the one who demands driver's licenses, other phone numbers from anyone daughter might date. It's a safety/security thing with me. If my youngest daughter is missing, like heck I'm not going to have leads to immediately pounce upon. And she's over 18! Oh yeah.. lol. She thinks I'm pretty cool, as opposed to neurotic. It's called "common sense".

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

Alongside the constantly shifting "truths" uttered by either parent -- that 1993 "alleged" rape really is a corker, isn't it...

[snarkytart]

Now...a lot women in the sex industry have has

meant

have had