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Published: Apr 27, 2006 07:51 PM
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Duke lacrosse accuser had made similar report
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By Samiha Khanna, Staff writer
The woman who says she was raped by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team may have made a similar rape claim 10 years ago in the neighboring town of Creedmoor, authorities confirmed Thursday.
The woman made the report on Aug. 18, 1996, when she was 18. She told police she was 14 when three men attacked her in Creedmoor, said Police Chief Ted Pollard.
From the archived paper records that he checked Thursday, Pollard said it didn't appear that there were any arrests.
Pollard confirmed the name and birth date of the woman who made the report matches the woman who is now at the center of the rape investigation at Duke. Police last week charged two lacrosse players, Collin Finnerty, 19, and Reade Seligmann, 20, with rape and kidnapping on the woman's accusations.
Contacted by phone Thursday, the accuser's father said his daughter made the report to police after she was held against her will by a group of men who had picked her up from school and driven her to Creedmoor.
The man said he became concerned when his daughter, who was living in Durham at the time, did not return from school. The girl was located in a house in Creedmoor, her father said. She was not sexually assaulted or injured in the incident, he said.
"They didn't do anything to her," he said.
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I am more confused than ever....I thought the mother said they did not tell the father........I'm going to bed...
They just can't seem to "find" a story and stick to it, can they?
The man said he became concerned when his daughter, who was living in Durham at the time, did not return from school.
She was 14 years old; didn't he miss her the first night?
The girl was located in a house in Creedmoor, her father said. She was not sexually assaulted or injured in the incident, he said.
That's not what she told the police, is it?
I am really confused by this family.
They need group therapy.
Mystery-AK: It ain't you: It's them.