"You can say with a high degree of certainty that there was a certain amount of blunt force trauma present to create injury."
"I can reasonably say these injuries are consistent with the story she told."
This was actually Arico and not Levicy. It was in a 4/1 Herald-Sun article titled:
Lag in search of Lacrosse homes draws questions
Is Arico actually saying there was blunt force trauma? I don't think so at all. She is describing what you can say in the process. She is not talking about the exam of Mangum at all, but only describing what a nurse can or can't say. Sombody is trying to make it look like Arico is describing CGM, but she isn't.
From that article:
"Theresa Arico is a sexual assault nurse examiner and coordinator of that program at Duke.
She described the process as a comprehensive combination of interviews and physical examinations of the person making the sexual assault complaint.
"You can say with a high degree of certainty that there was a certain amount of blunt force trauma present to create injury" by the physical examination, which uses a device called a colposcope to magnify a woman's internal parts where injuries consistent with a sexual assault would occur, Arico said.
But sexual assault nurse examiners do not render an opinion on whether a rape has occurred. That is for the State Bureau of Investigation to determine through its forensic lab work.
"I can reasonably say these injuries are consistent with the story she told," Arico said.
If DNA evidence is present where the assault was said to have occurred, that can further corroborate the victim's account, Arico said.
A typical exam might collect oral swabs, blood samples, hair and pubic hair. Special equipment might be used that emits a light that fluoresces when semen is present, for example. Fingernails could be scraped to look for an attacker's tissue. Any DNA material that does not match the victim's might be collected.
Arico said the DNA suspect kits that the Duke players provided under court order collect the same samples -- blood, oral swabs, hair and pubic hair."