I think what really happened three years ago was that she ran off with these older guys and may or may have not had consenual (well, as consenual as you can get considering her age) sex with one or more of them. Her father then went, found her and took her home.
I think Crystal makes up stories when she is in a fix and needs to get out of it. She wants sympathy from family, friends, and others, while she receives a pass from whatever wrong thing she was involved in. I believe she has serious issues.
"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
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.
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.