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Video Shows Woman Idenified As Alleged Duke Lacrosse Victim Pole Dancing Days After She Claims She Was Attacked

In an exclusive video obtained by INSIDE EDITION, a woman identified as the alleged victim in the Duke University lacrosse scandal, can be seen pole dancing at a strip club, just 13 days after she claims three lacrosse players raped her.

In the video, which is date stamped March 26th, the woman seems limber, and can be seen high-kicking her white boots over her head.

INSIDE EDITION spoke with H.P. Thomas, who was security manager at the strip club the night the video was shot.

Thomas said of the video, "it says that she was well enough to dance after the alleged incident."

Just two days after the tape was shot, the woman went to a hospital complaining of intense pain from the alleged rape.

"The girl complains she's in pain. Then she's dancing like she's not in pain," Thomas said. "Miracles happen, I guess."

The woman claims she was attacked March 13th. Thomas says just four nights later on March 17th, she was back at the club dancing.

According to court documents, two days after the March 26th video was shot, the accuser went to the hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina complaining of neck, back and knee pain from the alleged attack at the lacrosse team party. Eight days after the video was taken, she returned to the hospital, complaining of neck pain so severe it was 10 on a scale of one to 10.

The video also shows Thomas at the club on the night in question. He says a friend took the video, and it was only later that he realized that the alleged victim was even on the video.

In one section of the tape the woman can be seen giving a patron a lap dance.

District Attorney Mike Nifong did not return INSIDE EDITION's request for comment on the video.

The Duke players have all strongly denied the dancer's allegations, and now this new video could cast more doubt on the woman at the center of the storm.

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