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Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report
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| 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.
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; nifong
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To: Alia
How insane. What is worse, dead silence(it never happened), or harping on the whole incident??? Interesting about blood vs step molestation. Your job must have added some gray hair on your head.
Violent behavior is as telling as early sexual activity. I hope the young woman in your story has gotten her life together. I left out many details in my story, because it will be appealed. I warn people on some threads not to take a photo on a Megan's Law website at face value.
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posted on
04/29/2006 5:24:37 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
To: Dante3
Few people have good enough memory to remember all of their lies. That might be one explanation why so many conflicting accounts from the family members. Unless to cause confusion?Oh so true. Lies made in panic mode are even more suspectible. Her family sounds like they want to cash in on the situation. Disgusting!
1,462
posted on
04/29/2006 5:51:09 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
To: maggief
I would not be surprised if she has had a tough life. That's a horrible story. The sad thing is, even if she wanted to retract her accusations, it's not in her hands, if it ever really was (once she cried "rape").
To: snarkytart
Who knows. She could just be a head case and needs meds. Her behavior now and as a youth might be an indication of manic or bipolar mental illness, and not necessarily sexual trauma.Maybe this is the reason why the defense needs all those medical records of hers. My current take on her possible reason for accusing the Lacrosse players is that she is afraid of someone. Someone who she was supposed to pay?
I pray that these guys are publicly exonorated, their job offers are reinstated, as well as the team itself. I will especially pray for this woman, to get the help she needs.
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posted on
04/29/2006 6:00:35 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
To: maggief
Meet Mrs. Nifong ... Oh just damn. I've heard complaints about GALS. She's married to the asshat makes it all the more suspect.
1,465
posted on
04/29/2006 6:20:35 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I care for my pets better than Vincente Fox cares for his own citizens)
To: Publius22
As the fog lifts more pieces do view White Knight protects pinned to corner
Robin: “Batman, look down here! Under the pile of lacrosse sticks! Next to the artificial fingernails! A note!
Batman [reading]: “As the fog lifts more pieces do view. White knight protects pinned to corner.”
Robin: “The Riddler!!! Batman, what does it mean?!”
Batman: “Hmmm…'white knight'…'pinned to corner'…..…of course! To the Batmobile, Robin, we have no time to lose! Unless I’m very much mistaken, there’s a young woman at BunnyholeEntertainment tied to a chair at this very moment!”
To: SirJohnBarleycorn; Howlin; Peach; maggief
What's the deal with the TIME and the photos? According to Bissey's account, the girls were only at the house twenty minutes.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/421799.html
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posted on
04/29/2006 6:30:25 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
To: LWalk18
i know crystal mangum and i live in creedmoor,nc I read the report online and all 3 guys were black
To: Perdogg
Bissey's account is not far from what the defense is saying, supported by the photos.
According to the defense, the girls started dancing around 12:00. Sometime just before 12:30, they exit the bathroom and leave the house and get in Kim's car. At 12:30, the AV had returned and is pounding on the back door trying to get her shoe back.
In one of his other interviews Bissey says he saw the girls arrive while he was sitting on the front porch enjoying a smoke. He says he then went in to get a shower. So he had time to get a shower, and then come back out on the porch in time to watch the two girls leave the house. Seems like it fits the defense timeline pretty well.
To: supersugacookie
1,470
posted on
04/29/2006 6:42:59 PM PDT
by
Jrabbit
(Scuse me??)
To: supersugacookie
To: supersugacookie
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posted on
04/29/2006 6:59:46 PM PDT
by
maggief
(and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
To: supersugacookie
hi supersugacookie! Do you know the alleged victim?
To: Jrabbit
To: supersugacookie; xoxoxox
Do you know how far Kenly is from Creedmoor?
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
Unless I’m very much mistaken, there’s a young woman at BunnyholeEntertainment tied to a chair at this very moment!” "survey the board"
"white knight"
"more pieces do view"
Obviously a chess game...
This is kinda fun... I don't know where it leads but I did read all of the links hugs and kisses has sent us and I'll give you a bit of what I surmised... You will probably be able to piece more of it together than me...
1. A reference to a little girl in OK killed by her stepfather... she was identified as black based on her DNA... "follow the DNA" ... we don't know (I don't think we do) if there was any sexually transmitted DNA on the AV, but if there was they should be able to determine at least the "race" of the provider..
2. Mangum is a name with deep roots in NC history... There was a U.S. Senator Mangum who's children were taught by one of the first free Negro's in NC... was there some commingling which produced a biracial male that took the name of Mangum...
3. Several references to the black political process in the Durham area... Has there been some behind the scenes efforts to protect the Mangum "kids"... Hence the reduction of the AV's felonies and the fact that BM was on probation...
4. For all we know Nifong is part of the history of Durham (parents went to Duke) and he has an inbred instinct to protect the "family" of Durham...
All this is just pure speculation based on the links, clues, and comments of our resident riddler... but as I said... it is fun....
To: darbymcgill; xoxoxox
Courtesy ping to you, xo.
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posted on
04/29/2006 7:15:11 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
To: darbymcgill
Black Bishop to
White Queen
Check!
To: darbymcgill
To: Miss Behave; xoxoxox; SirJohnBarleycorn
Miss Behave, you are so correct, my apologies... Something else interesting SJB...
If you read here starting on page 104... there was a close relationship between John Chavis, an English teacher and the Mangums who live in... Hillsborough...
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