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.

[Howlin]

http://www.wral.com/download/2006/0428/9057546.pdf


http://www.wral.com/download/2006/0428/9057549.pdf

[sinkspur]

so to be murdered is pretty bad but not as bad as being ACCUSED of it falsely?.......

That's what you said. That's not what I said.

[cherry]

"Now we have the race baiters in there to try to stick to their original story"

well, when we have evil and self-promoting white leaders like the DA out there drumming up the race angle, what do you expect....

I am telling ya'...that DA needs to do jail time and he needs to be dissbarred.....

[Alia]

NOI bombarbs the San Francisco Bay Area BART stations. Would pick up their newspaper periodically to catch up as to where exactly their next political stunt would dovetail with the SocialistDem Agenda.

And Didn't Bill Clinton give $1million to Nation of Islam? "The Black Arm of the Law"? Yesssssireee, he did. Racism do pay.

I see from searching FR archives, Malik was also protesting in Denmark, not long back..

Quannel, spawn of Charlie Manson's prophecy...

[Fido969]

I just heard Gloria Allreds spawn say that the AV has received several death threats and KKK fliers have been left on her lawn!

Someone should hold her feet to the fire on that claim. The woman is a pathological liar, and it is time folks start calling her on it.

[LK44-40]

You notice when this Durham "bishop" who seems to be the main radical black spokesman does his little dog and pony shows at the LAX house he also has his absurd flower-of-Islam-style goons standing around him.

[Howlin]

That is amazing; a woman tells a police officer that she's been raped by three (black) men and he asks her to write a chronological report of the events and RETURN IT TO THE POLICE?

Statutory rape? Underage rape? And that's all they did?

This really stinks!

[JLS]

The key part is in the second .pdf file. The reporting officer interviewed her [name removed] "AND HER FIANCEE."

[Howlin]

Charles Manson?

BTW, Malik is a snappy dresser, isn't he?

[toldyou]

"What does the father mean, "they didn't do anything to her"? I thought she was traumatized by that first incident."

Correct. And they didn't do anything in this case, but she's traumatized. Go figure.

[Howlin]

At 14??

Or are you saying that her fiance made her go to the police and report it?

[FreedomPoster]

>>Which claim would that be?

The claim that "It sounds like something ugly happened that night, and because of the accuser's occupation and unsavory past, some very sick young men may get away with an anwful crime." From post #18.

What about this case, makes you think that "some very sick young men may get away with an anwful crime"?

I think this is being asked, because for those of us who have closely watched this case, there's very little indicating anything of the sort has happened. The accuser's story and timeline have holes you could drive a Mack truck through, and there is pretty much a complete lack of physical evidence to support the accusations, from what we can tell.

So if there's a way to support the claim, we'd be interested in hearing it, as we haven't heard reasonable support yet.

[LWalk18]

Well, it was over three years prior, so there wasn't a lot to investigate. I notice that although one of the suspects was supposedly her boyfriend, all three suspects have a question mark for age.

[Howlin]

On highway #29 there's a dive called Foxy Lady, which has a large sign advertising "exotic dancers".

One of the "parlors" around here has a big sign out front: "Lacrosse Players Welcome."

[JLS]

I am saying the police report says when she complained in 1996, the reporting officer talked to her and her fiancee. It is on the second file. The first is what all the stories a based on.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I lived in Eden at the time. I remember the incident vaguely.

[Howlin]

My sister lived in Eden!

[F.J. Mitchell]

And all the innocent people accused and convicted of a murder they didn't commit and are doing time for while the guilty roam the streets, would wonder what the hell your point is, Cherry.

[Carolinamom]

Looks like she was advised to write out details of the 'rape' but there's nothing here in the report that it was ever turned in. I wonder if that is the reason it was not followed up. Curious.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

He may not have MADE her report it, but she could have been backed into a corner by feeding the fiancee the gang rape story to cover her past activity, and then felt like the only way to make him fully believe it was to actually report it to the police.