Duke Lacrosse Accuser Gives Birth

WRAL ^ | 1/04/07

[maggief]

Chapel Hill — WRAL has confirmed that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case gave birth at UNC Hospitals on Wednesday.

Sources tell WRAL the woman had the baby by Cesarean section. She was not due until February.

[Crawdad]

To whom does she tender the suit for a defense? Duke? Her department chair? Her renter's insurance?

[Locomotive Breath]

Horribly unimpressive. KC Johnson went through some of the faculty resumes of the 88 and it was an ugly sight.

[Alia]

Jog my memory here, pls.

Not too long after this "event" happened, there was a female blogger/campus reporter who had intimated there were students/friends who knew more about what was really going "down" with CGM than anyone else knew; but that they dared not go public with what they knew. Anyone else recall this? I remember it; and I don't remember if she was a student at NCCU.

[Locomotive Breath]

If you worked for NC State (as I did), there is something called "The Defense of State Employees Act" which permits the state to defend you in the performance of your duties. The key word there is "permits". I found this out because they were forcing me to write and sign a lab safety plan and threatened me with the loss of my lab if I didn't do it. I knew good and well that if anyone ever got hurt in that lab they would throw me over the side and I'd be stuck.

I don't know what private universities do.

[Ken H]

The main point here is to haul her butt into court, make her testify under oath, ruin her reputation, prevent her from getting future employment and make her life generally miserable. It's also to have a cautionary effect on the other nutjobs before they shoot off their mouths. University types think they can say anything without consequences. As a Visiting Prof she is not tenured and can be fired right this very minute. This is a serious charge. I think that she should not be allowed to teach her class this spring.

What you said!

Do you think that prof who bad-mouthed Reade should be sweating at this point?

[Locomotive Breath]

She was a reporter on the student newspaper and the article she described her experience in was in Florida. But I can't find it.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The journalist from NCCU talked to the neighbors who did not have kind words about precious.

The journalist struggled with it and decided she needed to report it. Went back to the neighborhood and neighbor had clammed up.

(Hindsight, wonder why??)

Best recollection, not 100%

(That wasn't the murdered student, I hope? Have to go look that up.

[Crawdad]

Here's a tragic story about a NCCU student. I hope the two stories aren't related. Prayers for her and her family.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4906005

[Alia]

Sounds like Duke could do with Dave Horowitz' Academic Bill of Rights.

[Fido969]

It looks like she hasn't published anything (except co-authorship of the gang of 88 letter) in over 5 years, is that right?

Just guessing - I wonder if that burst of publishing coincided with the beginning of her "visiting" at Duke.

Then once settled in, she became "the guest that wouldn't leave."

[Locomotive Breath]

Absolutely - Peter Wood.

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/pwood

But I think Reade is going to have to finish with the criminal justice system first.

[Alia]

They need to drag Baker's butt back to Durham and make him answer for this

I second this.

[Locomotive Breath]

Oh crap. She was a reporter on the student newspaper

http://www.nccu.edu/campus/echo/archive2-0304/c-read.html

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601359_pf.html

(snip)

....Kristiana Bennett is a reporter for the Campus Echo, NCCU's student newspaper. Early on, Bennett went to the accuser's house to talk. The woman was not at home, but Bennett spoke with neighbors. One told of a barbecue where the woman behaved in an unflattering manner. Bennett could not bring herself to include the details in the article for her paper. She knew the woman's past would be dredged. The notes from the interview stayed in her purse for weeks.

The woman's parents live two miles from the NCCU campus. Reporters swarmed the small house with aluminum siding and a screened wooden porch. Her father ......

[Alia]

Denita Smith, the murdered, was a photographer for the Echo, NCCU campus newspaper.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Wonder if she wrote about this mess?

I have some searching to do.

[Crawdad]

That's why I said I hope her murder and the LAX story aren't connected. Her murder alone is tragic.

[Fido969]

Provost Peter Lange who publicly took Baker down a whole bunch of notches.

The provost has a sharp pencil and a brilliant writing style. When he says: "My response speaks for itself and I have no intention of elaborating on it further" the period is seared into the paper with a laser beam.

The English professor, though, has trouble forming decent sentences.

Maybe he should take writing lessons from Joan Foster.

[Alia]

There's a picture at this site of Denita Smith. And a brief bio:

5. The Five Rings of Georgia Denita Smith, originally from Charlotte N.C., is a graduate English student at North Carolina Central University in. Durham, NC. In May of 2004 she received ... gagames.kennesaw.edu/June.2006.newsletter.pdf [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]

And, this one site hasn't come up for me TWICE, already:

6. Charlotte DemSummer pr 02 ... campaign reform in North Carolina, says Denita Smith, a N.C. Central University student who is part of the Charlotte ... www.democracy-nc.org/nc/..\whatsnew\charlottedemsu... [Found on Ask.com]

[TommyDale]

"Duke County Superior Court"

Ya think the local media has sort of a mental block? Geez.