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.

[cherry]

no chip....however, I won't let you get away with making this sweeping false statements.....and you must have some issues with your gender ,whatever that may be.....

[toldyou]

Jezebelle said something in a previous thread today which made sense...her post:

Posted by Jezebelle to Mad-Margaret
On News/Activism 04/27/2006 1:57:25 PM PDT · 245 of 389


They're also talking about Mostafa, the cabby, saying Kim was getting into a white car, yet her car is black of navy, according to the pictures.

Two things come to mind: one, maybe the front of Kim's car has a white engine hood and/or fenders (the car is old and dinged up, so that seems possible) or, two, Mostafa doesn't know the names of his colors in English very well. For instance, living in CA, we hear people trying to speak a word or two of Spanish to some illegal from time to time. I have heard people (just a couple times) use "blanco" to mean black because the words sound sort of the same, when in fact it means "white". The Spanish word for black is "negro." I think the defense team should look into this. Do they have full photos of Kim's car? That wouldn't be hard to get.

[Howlin]

"She didn't want to bring charges up against them because they said they were going to kill her if she said anything," said the mother, who is not being named because of the nature of the crimes her daughter, a 27-year-old single mother with two children, has said were committed.

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"It says she was beaten, assaulted and sexually assaulted by three African-American males," Chief Pollard said. "And she identified the three males."


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/sports/sportsspecial1/28duke.html




http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/sports/sportsspecial1/28duke.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[F.J. Mitchell]

Gee Whiz Cherry. How is anyone around here supposed to know what is a big difference, if you don't tell us??

[stands2reason]

Rape is a physical assault.

Following that logic, if I kidnapped a chef and forced him to cook me a meal I should only be charged with "theft of service."

[sinkspur]

however, I won't let you get away with making this sweeping false statements

You said I put all women in a single category.

That's patently false. I respect all women, except those that insist on being smart-asses.

Those who defend women who are obviously liars, then try to justify their defense by somehow making it the man's fault that the woman was in a particular situation, fall into that latter category.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

I think Crystal makes up stories when she is in a fix and needs to get out of it.

Bingo.

One can see how the Navy might have been something of an 'escape hatch' for her, allowing her to get away from her increasingly complicated web of stories in NC.

[snarkytart]

For the statutory rape charge, does the raper have to be over 18 and the victim under 18?


________________

Yes.

It is odd it was classified as a 'statutory rape', when she said she was held AGAINST HER WILL and beaten.
That is in the report.
I thought statutory rape was consenual??

[cherry]

my point was in reference to someone saying that being simply accused of rape falsely is WORSE TIMES TWO then the actual, brutal, tortuous rape itself.....which of course is nonsense...

[Guilty by Association]

No, you should be charged with "theft of service" and kidnapping.

[JLS]

Yep, something like that happened. But I suspect it was a bit more than just a break up. I suspect it was a break up caused by her behavior or just him catching some behavior of hers.

I think that is the similarity. She was in a box of some kind both times. Crying rape must have worked out the first time and nobody was prosecuted so it seemed benign to her. So she tried it again, but the feminazis at Duke ever looking for a chance to slap down a male sports team stirred up a bunch of dust. It got out of her control and here we are.

[Howlin]

Alibi photos for lacrosse players questioned
Prosecutors reportedly claim prints were doctored, don't show correct time


The photos in question was taken, defense sources say, at approximately 12:41 a.m. and shows the accuser calmly being helped into a car to leave the party. Along with other time-stamped photos from earlier in the evening, defense attorneys will claim that there wasn't enough time for a rape to take place.

But prosecutors will argue, that photo actually shows the accuser being dropped off at the party, not leaving it, and that it was taken well before midnight. Prints taken from digital cell phone cameras have time stamps, but can be altered, digital photography experts told Time. Only the cameras themselves have true embedding time date to correspond with photos taken.



http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12521096/

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The adorable picture of your son standing in the front yard reminds me of Eden for some reason. We lived in an older house I would die to live in now! Eden was one of the friendliest cities I have ever lived in. Eden had the best barbeque places!

I remember standing in line waiting for a pizza when I heard Harry Chapin died. The radio then played Taxi and I cried.

[Guilty by Association]

Nighty-night...

[Carling]

Can phone calls be faked? Can ATM receipts?

Nifong makes my blood boil.

[stands2reason]

Women cower fearfully in their homes while trios of rapists roam the countryside...

If you see strange men lurking about in groups of three, RUN!!!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

It may have been mentioned, but I heard an interview with the mayor of Creedmoor. He was asked if the defense or the media approached him with the story--he said the media.

[Howlin]

It's about ten miles up the road from me. Should I be worried?

[Howlin]

Can phone calls be faked? Can ATM receipts?

All the screaming talking head women on TV seem to think they can be.

[sinkspur]

Alibi photos for lacrosse players questioned

Are the phone records doctored too? What about the ATM receipts?

The DA is desperate. Only, how does he explain the broomstick that the father referenced, when the AV and Kim never mentioned that a broomstick was used as a rape tool?