Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Crystal Mangum reveals reason she lied about being raped by three Duke lacrosse players
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 13, 2024 | Stephen M. Lepore

Posted on 12/13/2024 10:45:31 AM PST by Morgana

The woman at the center of the Duke University lacrosse rape case has finally admitted she lied when she accused three young men of sexual assault in 2006.

Crystal Mangum, from Durham, North Carolina, came under the spotlight in 2006 when she accused the trio of gang raping her during a party where she was hired as a stripper.

The 46-year-old mother-of-three is currently in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in 2011.

It was from prison where she spoke to Let's Talk with Kat, an independent content creator who released an interview with her Thursday.

There, Mangum admitted that she'd made the entire thing up.

'I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,' she said.

Mangum even admitted that the three men 'trusted me that I wouldn't betray their trust.'

'[I] made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.'

She claimed that it was her search for validation that led her to become a stripper despite having a college education.

Mangum then asked the three men she accused - David Evans, Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - to accept her apologies.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS:
Nifong is just as guilty
1 posted on 12/13/2024 10:45:31 AM PST by Morgana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Every “news” outlet that pushed this narrative needs to be held accountable. Sue them into oblivion


2 posted on 12/13/2024 10:49:44 AM PST by Smellin Salt (AT A POLITICAL )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Smellin Salt
Every “news” outlet that pushed this narrative needs to be held accountable. Sue them into oblivion

I'd love to see all the old news stories from that time insisting the boys were guilty, dredged up for watching again.

3 posted on 12/13/2024 10:51:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Princess Mangum needs to really come clean now if she is remorseful. She needs to name names of politicians and customers who were sexually involved with her prior to the Duke incident.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 10:57:45 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

The Duke administrators who signed off on it need to be sued to oblivion.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 10:58:36 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Nifong is the model for the Alvin Bragg mode of “creative” prosecutions. Bragg uses whores too as his star witness in his star chamber political prosecutions.


6 posted on 12/13/2024 10:59:59 AM PST by chuckee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

7 posted on 12/13/2024 11:00:45 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

“ she said that she had ‘no regrets’ and that everything happens because of God. “

God had nothing to do with her choices.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 11:06:36 AM PST by HollyB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HollyB
God had nothing to do with her choices.

Agreed. She opted instead to listen to the Prince of This World.

9 posted on 12/13/2024 11:29:48 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( Fascist, deplorable and proud of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

I live in Raleigh and remember it well. Her initial motivation was to get another fix of the prescription pain meds that she so much craved and was addicted to. She left it at that until corrupt DA Mike Nifong picked up the case as a cause celebre for his reelection campaign.


10 posted on 12/13/2024 11:33:36 AM PST by LuxAerterna
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 1Old Pro

Don’t forget the ”Duke 88,” a batch of nitwit faculty members who hired a full page ad declaring these students racist guilty rapists. Duke ended up paying so money in settlement they might have had to dip into their endowment fund.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 11:38:15 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Seems like a good time to fire up the Litig-o-matic. The extra large one.

There’s a known list of 88 Duke professors who signed a letter.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 12:15:17 PM PST by lurk (u)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shanover

From the article, they were sued bigly.


13 posted on 12/13/2024 12:42:58 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

“[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.’

She claimed that it was her search for validation that led her to become a stripper despite having a college education.”

Total BS.

She told the other stripper that went with her that she was going to make the accusation against the boys before they went inside to dance.


14 posted on 12/13/2024 2:24:44 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

FOR MONEY


15 posted on 12/13/2024 2:25:13 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: shanover

I believe 81 faculty members signed a petition to punish the innocent men without a shred of evidence.


16 posted on 12/13/2024 2:27:59 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

“’[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.’ She claimed that it was her search for validation that led her to become a stripper despite having a college education.”

On frst read I thought this was bs, but it is likely true. I’ve read about strippers feeling a sense of power over the horndogs in their audience. In this case, Crystal Mangum was massively disrepected, and treated like dirt by a mob of drunk, racist, white frat boys/athletes — angry because they thought they had paid for a pretty white chick, not an overweight black girl. Instead of validation she was torn down to nothing. Accusing them of rape = instant empowerment.

If she has learned that self esteem comes from God or within, good for her.


17 posted on 12/13/2024 2:42:47 PM PST by Chewbarkah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chewbarkah

God must be in prison. That’s where all the low life go to find Him.


18 posted on 12/13/2024 3:00:13 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: hinckley buzzard
The Duke Gang of 88 libtard professors who were way too eager to ruin these students' lives based on an unproven lie was, for me, a tipping point in my opinion of the credibility of academia in 2006.

Anecdotally, I had been disappointed in the educators in the system for 8 years even as I ultimately achieved my doctorate in dentistry several decades ago. And that was in a discipline relatively insulated from politics.

Now in 2024 I personally have little but contempt for academia.

19 posted on 12/13/2024 5:11:19 PM PST by Beowulf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Say what you want but this is one of a very few ACTUAL apologies I’ve heard from anyone on the left for half a dozen years or so...


20 posted on 12/15/2024 9:15:45 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson