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.
Don't you love Malik!
He's gonna turn this into a real race riot!
Jane Weintraub, while as irritating as a hemorrhoid, just said that the introduction of the broomstick by the father is a devastating piece of evidence for the defense, if it was never mentioned by the AV in any of her accusations.
Now Malik Shabaz, of the New Black Panthers, is sticking up for the stripper. Black mafia.
;-)
I read his bio the other day.....how can the AV afford him?
You may be right. The mother has been in contact with Willie Gary. The release of this information may be by design.
I bet the boy friend and his family are THRILLED to be drug into this.
They'll be all over the TV tomorrow.
30+ % of the award.
John Bourlan is a fool and a local joke; he doesn't even know that this information was not put out by the defense, but by the MOTHER, FGS.
He's also talking for Nifong.
Oh, brother, this area is going to go nuts tomorrow when they find out about this.
When did she remember that she was raped at 14 and told about it 3 years later? And she named names? And it wasn't prosecuted? I'm having flashbacks to Tawana Brawley! LOL
Perhaps Duke's coach resigned because was not able to do the job the university required of him. (Keep the team in line.) Personnel records are private, and we will likely never know.
The new black panthers aren't going to like this news.
Sounds right to me.
A retro-rape movement at Duke? (Or would that be.. rape retro?)
I have on Greta, Rita is the female Geraldo.
The idiot attorney's on Rita's show does not even know the evidence. How can the one female defense attorney Jane, say the photos blew up in the defense's face is beyond me.
Do you have any idea what in the heck she was talking about?!?!?!
LOL
Heart breaks for the other team members. My gosh what a mess. I know that if a kid plays lacrosse is that going to be a nasty term. Such a shame.On Rita Crosby show Malik Shabazz is saying that -we have been always misused and abused- Oh my golly they went to the house of the parents to tell them we are supporting you. Now we have the race baiters in there to try to stick to their original story.
Janie said that?
But she's been stripping for a while, the father of her children ( who is NOT her ex-husband. but with whom she had the first child with, while she was STILL MARRIED !) pays her child support, so WHY she had severe enough money problems, severe enough to send her spiraling down to a full blown nervous breakdown, I don't know.
Ted Williams isn't too smart.
She didn't count on Nifong doing 70+ interviews, that's for sure. LOL
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