Kin cut off from gang-rape accuser
By DAN E. WAY : The Herald-Sun
Oct 13, 2006 : 9:47 pm ET
DURHAM -- The woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of gang-raping her has not had contact with her immediate family in about two months.
Her father said Friday he still believes his daughter's account of a brutal sexual assault while she performed as an exotic dancer -- despite her estrangement from her folks and statements by a second stripper that contradict key parts of the accuser's story.
"That girl that was with her, she keeps changing her story," the father said of Kim Roberts Pittman, the dance partner of the accuser. "She's not a credible person to me."
Pittman will appear Sunday night on a special, two-segment story on "60 Minutes." Publicists for the show say she offers different versions than the accuser about events at a lacrosse party house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. the night of March 13-14, when the forced sex and physical abuse allegedly occurred.
"From what I've seen of it, I'm already shocked [by Pittman's statements]," the accuser's father said of the "60 Minutes" promotional clips that the network has broadcast. He said he will watch the show to see how she characterizes events now.
Pittman's story has wavered over the past months, at times appearing to support the accuser and on other occasions contradicting her.
But just a few days after the lacrosse party, the accuser's father said, Pittman came to his house, blaming herself for an attack on her dance partner.
"She was crying. She said she hates that she left her there by herself. She apologized to us for letting her there by herself," he said. "She said if she would have known what was going to happen, she would have stayed with her."
Meanwhile, the father said, he does not know where his daughter is staying or whether she is back in school at N.C. Central University.
"I haven't heard anything from her. I haven't seen my grandbabies or anything," he said.
He wonders if the public nature and media scrutiny of the case have played a role in the damaged family dynamics.
"She got kind of mad when we started talking to the media," he said.
He said he saw his daughter about two months ago, when they had a chance encounter in traffic. He had just enough time to ask how she was doing.
"She said, 'Fine,' and then they drove off," he said.
"I am worried about her. The whole family misses her. We just wonder what's going on right now," he said.
Even her attorney has not returned phone calls asking about her welfare, he added.
Meanwhile, "60 Minutes" released further information about statements the three accused lacrosse players make to Ed Bradley on Sunday's show. The three have been indicted and are awaiting trial while free on $100,000 bond each.
"Your whole life you try to, you know, stay on the right path, and to do the right things," says Reade Seligmann. "And someone can come along and take it all away, just by going like that. [Points his finger]. Just by pointing their finger. That's all it takes," he tells Bradley.
Seligmann tells Bradley he was never questioned by investigators from the prosecutor's office or police after the accuser picked him out of a lineup.
"[The police lineup] felt like Russian Roulette. It could have been any single one of us. Kids were even calculating their chances -- the percentage -- that you would get picked," Seligmann says.
"To see my face on TV [after he was indicted] and above it saying, you know, 'Alleged rapists.' You don't know what that does to me and to my family and to the people that care about me," he says.
"This woman has destroyed everything I worked for in my life," David Evans says. "She's put it on hold. She's destroyed two other families and she's brought shame on a great university. Worst of all, she's split apart a community and a nation on facts that just didn't happen and a lie that should have never been told," Evans tells Bradley.
The third player indicted, Collin Finnerty, said the indictment will follow him forever.
"I never expected anyone to get indicted, let alone myself. It's changed my life, no matter what happens from here on out. It's probably going to be something that defines me my whole life," Finnerty tells Bradley.
But such statements don't shake the faith the accuser's father has in her story.
"I still believe my daughter because I saw her when she came here from the hospital," he said. Her face "was all bruised and swollen, and then she couldn't hardly walk."
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That old man is nothing but a damned liar and has done nothing but lie from the start. But leave it to the limp-weenie media there to drag him out for another round of BS when the going gets tough. The H-S has no shame, none at all. They still don't get it - nobody is buying their smoke and mirrors anymore.
The old man says he hasn't seen her in months. Isn't that nice. Wasn't she hooking in Charlotte the last we all knew of her? She had/has a website linking her to some whorehouse/escort services in Charlotte. Maybe daddy should fire up his pickup and head to Charlotte to find his little lost girl who's subjecting her kids to the life she leads. Why hasn't somebody dropped a dime on the whore to CPS (Child protective Services) and had her meal tickets taken away?