Posted on 03/31/2006 8:03:52 PM PST by Howlin
DURHAM, N.C. - The father of the woman who has accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of sexually assaulting her said he didn't find out that his daughter was the reported victim - and that she is an exotic dancer - until a reporter visited his house.
The retired trucker who lives in Durham said he saw his daughter the day after the reported attack, but she didn't say anything was wrong. She even left her car at the house for several days because he said she didn't want to drive it.
Her father, a quiet man who tinkers on cars as a hobby, said he saw news reports about the attack.
"I didn't know it was my daughter," he said. The Charlotte Observer generally does not name victims of sexual assault, so his name is being withheld to protect the identity of his daughter.
The case has ignited campus protests and stirred racial tension in Durham. The woman at the center of the case is black, and the men she accuses are white. She also is a student at N.C. Central University, a historically black college near Durham's inner-city, compared with the more expensive Duke campus.
DNA tests have been conducted on 46 of the lacrosse players, who deny the allegations. A 47th member, who is black, was not tested because the woman said her attackers were white.
Last week, a reporter stopped by the reported victim's house looking for her, the woman's father said, but he said he didn't know what was going on. He called his daughter and she said the district attorney told her not talk to anyone.
"(She) didn't tell us anything about it," he said.
He said he also found out through the media that his daughter, who is the youngest of three, was an exotic dancer.
"She always told me she was going to work," he said.
On Friday, he installed a timing belt in a car and watched his daughter's two children play outside the house. He said working on cars and playing with the grandchildren helps take his mind off what's happening with his daughter.
He said she seems to be doing "pretty good," and so is the rest of the family. He said they haven't talked much about the reported incident, but it weighs heavily on his mind. He said he's grateful that N.C. Central has been so supportive, but he doesn't like how his daughter has been portrayed in the media. And he's especially frustrated that no one has been charged in the connection with the allegations.
"If it had been anybody but them, they would have been locked up, but yet they didn't because it's Duke," he said. "I hope them boys - if they did it - I hope they get what they deserve. I hope they don't go lenient on them."
District Attorney Michael Nifong said he's waiting for results of the DNA test and that he does not expect to file charges in the case any earlier than next week.
I know. And it doesnt' list a pocketbook or much of her stuff, does it?
I believe he saw something, but by this time he has seen and read so many media reports that I'm sure that they are starting to meld with his actually memory of what he thought he saw.
If "Kim" left before the attack, why was she around to take the accuser to Kroger? Didn't the accuser say they met for the first time that night?
That's what she said in the original N&O interview.
Maybe they just didn't know where the police station was?
According to the memory impaired Mr. Bissey in the link below, they arrived, came outside after 20 min., got into ONE car amidst a crowd of angry, slur-spewing party-goers. Then after a time when things calmed down, ONE woman went back in to get her shoes. If an attack occurred, that would likely have been the time imo ... with "Kim" remaining in the car outside.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/421799.html
I got them one time and was rushing through a door and got my fingernail jammed into the little metal thing on the door frame. It was torture pulling it out and it only barely pulled up one side of the artificial nail. I can imagine how painful it would be to have the whole thing pulled off. I'll never get them again!
I heard "artificial fingernails" on one of the cable news shows. I know it wasn't Nancy Grace--she already has the whole lacrosse team tried and convicted on her show.
Thanks for explaining the Duke admissions policies. Many who don't have children in college don't understand how this works.
Good question. I'm wondering why she told the N.O. reporter that her Dad came to the hospital but he told a reporter that he only heard about it through the press. Could she be lying?
Oh, gosh; she's covering this? UGH.
At this point, who knows.
But they both talked to reporters, so it's not rumor. It's words out of their own mouths.
Okay, so Duke own the house. That means they could be held liable (a stretch perhaps but not so far-flung that some lawyers wouldn't try it). They essentially put the jocks in the house.
Mr. Bissey-body says the house has often been the scene of loud parties and the police have been called out there four other times in seven months.
There's a lot to the accuser's story that doesn't add up but there are some things from the player's side that makes you wonder too.
BTW, it is probably an older house given its location near campus and I've been in some older homes where there is more room in the bathroom than you'd find in newer homes. Four people could fit in one old home's bathroom I remember living in for a time. It wouldn't be comfortable but it would be large enough to do the deed and this was a very modest home I am talking about.
This is not going to be an easy case. At least not without some breakthrough like a DNA match.
I doubt they knew where the police station was especially if they're not from that part of town. I couldn't tell you where is the nearest police station to my house as, thankfully, I've never had a chance to need it. That particular Kroger has, for years been open 24/7 IIRC.
I did not know that. Thanks - it makes sense. But I have to ask, if someone removed numbers from that house I would doubt it was someone with the university. Who in any offical capacity would have the poor judgement to remove evidence from a crime scene especially as it would probably be pretty hard to cover up the fact that numbers had formerly been there?
I knew this for a long time. If you're really interested read a recent book called "Admissions Confidential". The writer, whose name I forget, was IMHO pretty bonkers and really hated Duke for a variety of reasons, but I believe she accurately described how the admissions process works.
Well, it's been a long time since my nail wearing days (yuk, yuk). From your experience it sounds like it's fairly easy to damage them even if it's painful. It's interesting that this woman can afford the high-class nails but maybe the IRS lets her write them off as a "business expense". Myself, I've never understood the attraction of those nails as they, ummm, easily give out accidental scratches.
It says artificial nails on the search warrant.
Thanks for the facts, ma'am!
According to documents posted at Smokinggun.com the house numbers were on the front of the house black numbers 610 as of March 16th. The incident and 911 call were March 13-14 time frame. At least part of the alleged victim's account of events is listed on documents at smoking gun and there are first "names" for the alleged bathroom assailants.
Are you kidding? Do you really think this girl files taxes on the money she earns from "escort services"? You don't know much about this line of work and the types of people who do it do you?
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