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.
The democrap race-baiting manipulation criminal enterprise party is all a twitter because they think racial strife will get them more votes in the fall. Makes me even more determined to get to the polls and vote the bastards into extinction.
Watching Cynthia yesterday, I had that very same thought.
The sad aspect is the contituency that keeps returning such racist bigots to office. I'll leave you to name why but it has to do with 'entitlement mentality' that believes victimhood equates to empowerment and the racial war such fosters be damned.
I was particularly offended and infuriated when she came out and used the "inappropriate touching" statement; she surely picked that exact phrase to inflame her side.
It was one of the cheesiest things I've ever heard.
very simply the proscetution could eliminate ALL doubt if he presented his caes to the jury.
What's even worse..she paraded children carrying signs claiming she was being targeted--another generation of "victims"...What a shame
Did you know... that ills that befell CA pub ed came out of the English and Psychology Departments? Imagine that. English Departments demanding to be in charge over Math and Science Departments. This Baker person has attempted just a ploy. All the politically correct rot lying in the murk is hatching out, and all in the names of politics. It has nothing to do with the facts, nothing to do with the alleged victim nor the LaCrosse Players -- it has everything to do with personal "gratification" by some grownups taking LIBERTIES and advantage of situation in order to further their own, personal ambitions.
It's a form of theft; and is most certain abusive.
Here's the link to his TOME:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607267/posts?page=510#510
Well. The author is a professor of "English"? I guess he means the language only; for throughout his diatribe there is not a single mention of the English-based RULE OF LAW: Innocent until Proven Guilty. Not quite fully American, perhaps he should move to France and teach his "English" fiction courses.
He says he felt 'numb, angry'
Samiha Khanna, Staff Writer
The father of the woman who said she was raped at a party near the Duke University campus said in an interview Tuesday that when he saw her the day after the party, her eyes and face were swollen, her arms were scratched, and she was complaining about her leg. She told him she thought some part of her leg had slipped out of joint, he said.
The woman told her father that she had been dancing at a party and that someone had hit her. It wasn't until the next day the woman told her father she had been raped, he said.
"I think she was ashamed. ... I just felt numb, angry," the father said.
The party was at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. and was attended by Duke lacrosse team players. Lawyers for players deny the woman's allegations. No charges have been filed.
In an interview March 25, the woman told The News & Observer that she hesitated to report her story to police but that thinking about her father helped her make the decision.
"I knew if I didn't report it that he would have that hurt forever, knowing that someone hurt his baby and got away with it," she said in the interview.
It is the policy of The News & Observer not to identify people who report sexual assaults to police, or the names of their relatives, in an effort to protect the victims' identity.
The father said Tuesday that early on the morning of March 14, he went to Duke Hospital with his son and waited more than two hours to see his daughter. Doctors wouldn't say why she was there, he said.
The father went home and waited for word from his daughter. Later that morning, she came to her parents' house with her boyfriend.
"After she came home, that's when I knew she had been beaten up," her father said.
His daughter had kept private several details of the attack, he said. It was only through reporters and articles that he learned his daughter told police she had been threatened with assault with a broomstick and that fake nails police say were ripped off the victim's fingers during the attack were found in a police search March 16.
Since news of the woman's reported attack, she has been approached by several lawyers wanting to represent her, her father said. He didn't know who, if anyone, had been chosen.
With local and national news crews staked out at the home where she lives with her two young children, the woman, 27, has been staying elsewhere, her father said.
"I don't think she wants to go home," he said. Meanwhile, the woman's two school-age children are trying to keep their routine, spending parts of each day with their grandparents, he said, as he waited for the children to arrive in their school bus.
The father said his daughter can identify the men she says attacked her. "She said ... 'I'll never forget those faces,' " he said.
Staff writer Samiha Khanna can be reached at 956-2468 or skhanna@newsobserver.com.
Benjamin Niolet, Staff Writer
The results of DNA tests in the investigation of a reported rape at a Duke University lacrosse team party could be made public by team members' lawyers who say the players did not commit a crime.
The tests could compare samples from players with any DNA collected from the woman who said she was raped. State Bureau of Investigation experts are performing the tests.
All but one of the team's 47 members were ordered to give a DNA sample in the investigation. District Attorney Mike Nifong said he has no plans to release to the public or media the test results.
Lawyers for the players said those test results must, by law, be given to the players. One of the lawyers, Joseph B. Cheshire V of Raleigh, said Tuesday that he had not decided whether he would release the results.
"I haven't made that decision, but there's certainly a good chance that will happen," Cheshire said. "I'd be real surprised if we don't release it."
Cheshire said there are now 11 lawyers working for team members.
Nifong has said in interviews that he expected the test results this week. Cheshire said he had been told the results would be back next week.
The results could be a key to unraveling what, if anything, happened during the party, which started March 13 and was attended by team members. The woman, who works for an escort service, told authorities she was raped by three men in a bathroom at the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
Staff writer Benjamin Niolet can be reached at 956-2404 or bniolet@newsobserver.com.
Apr 05, 2006 05:44 AM
Faculty committee to review disciplinary procedures
Jane Stancill, Staff Writer
Today, a faculty committee will begin a review of disciplinary procedures to help Duke University get a better handle on unruly student behavior. The action follows a police investigation into a woman's allegation that she was raped and beaten at a lacrosse team party last month. No one has been charged, but the lacrosse players admitted to underage drinking and hiring women from escort services to dance, and police received reports of men yelling racial slurs at women the night of the party.
The committee will look at what rules and standards are in place at Duke to make clear to students that such behavior is not tolerated, said Paul Haagen, a law professor and chairman of Duke's Academic Council.
"We're pretty good on academic discipline," Haagen said. "Our standards are pretty clear. But have we got this right on social discipline? ... The answer is we've got some issues, and then you ask, 'What could we do that would be better?' "
The faculty group is expected to issue a report by May 1.
Beyond the review, Duke's administration is under pressure from faculty to take a stronger stand on problems in its lacrosse program -- and to improve the campus climate regarding issues of race, class and sexual violence.
In letters and meetings, professors and administrators have exchanged heated words about what is and isn't being done in response to the allegations of rape at the party.
Houston Baker Jr., a professor of English, said no matter what unfolds from the rape investigation, there is little question that the Duke lacrosse players were involved in underage drinking, hiring exotic dancers and making racial slurs.
"Those are three things that in some institutions would call for immediate corrective, severe, stern internal sanctions," Baker said this week. "In a corporation, the team and the coach would be gone."
Baker, who attended a tense, closed-door faculty meeting Thursday, said that in 38 years of teaching, he had never seen professors more angry -- and more willing to pitch in to help Duke make reforms and restore its reputation.
The university takes the issues seriously, and its next steps will be apparent soon, Senior Vice President John Burness said Tuesday.
"We expect by the end of the week to say something," he said. "We're working on a lot of different things."
Some want more
Administrators have said they must let the legal process unfold and can't do anything to jeopardize the police investigation. But some faculty want administrators to take more decisive action.
The lacrosse situation has put Duke in the national spotlight, and professors fear the negative attention will hurt efforts to recruit top students, particularly African-American students.
Haagen said the faculty asked pointed questions of Duke President Richard Brodhead in a 1 1/2-hour session last week.
"Virtually everybody in that room was feeling some significant level of embarrassment, humiliation and fear for damage to Duke and its mission," he said.
Students are also feeling tension in the classroom, according to an e-mail message to faculty from Robert Thompson Jr., dean of Trinity College at Duke.
"For example, some women and black students have reported feeling stressed when they are expected to speak for or defend the perspective of women and/or the black community, and some athletes report feeling harassed by their peers and professors," Thompson wrote.
Baker said professors want to be involved in solutions.
"I think there's a faculty willing to sign on to a five-year plan to get rid of some of the kind of culture embedded in this institution," he said. "But we need leadership. We need real leadership."
Duke Provost Peter Lange said in a letter that he was "disappointed, saddened and appalled" by an outspoken letter Baker wrote the Duke administration last week.
Lange wrote that Duke leaders were diligently seeking meaningful changes rather than "playing to the crowd."
'We will not rush'
"That our pace will still disappoint some is undoubted," Lange wrote, "but we will not rush to judgment, nor will we take precipitous actions, which, symbolically satisfying as they may be, assuage passion but do little to remedy the deeper problems."
Burness said Brodhead had met with various groups in the past week, including professors, undergraduates, graduate students and black leaders in the community.
"He's listening carefully and he's developing in his mind, 'OK, what are the things we need to do now after what we've heard?' " Burness said.
On Tuesday night, Brodhead was in Boston to support the Duke women's basketball team in the national championship game.
Staff writer Jane Stancill can be reached at 956-2464 or janes@newsobserver.com.
Well, he's changed his story once again -- and just since Monday night on Rita Cosby's show.
If she is an escort, it wasn't rape, it was just theft of services.
If I had not have heard the father with my own ears, I would have taking it with a grain of salt considering it being reported by motor mouth Rita.
New Search Warrant Reveals Plans For Another Duke Lacrosse Party
POSTED: 11:48 am EDT April 5, 2006
UPDATED: 12:07 pm EDT April 5, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. -- A Durham police search warrant obtained by WRAL Wednesday indicates that at least one Duke lacrosse member planned to have a party involving strippers the night after the incident in which one exotic dancer claims she was raped by team
The search warrant, executed on March 27 and 28 for a student's car and dorm room, includes an e-mail that police believe is from lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen.
The e-mail states that "after tonights show, i've decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c. all are welcome." The email was obtained by Durham police from a confidential source on March 14.
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The e-mail, which was signed "41," which is believed to be Ryan McFadyen's jersey number on the lacrosse team. It says that the party on March 14 would involve no nudity and that plans for the party that night include "killing the b----- as soon as (they) walk in and proceding to cut their skin off..."
McFadyen's attorney, Bob Ekstrand, said the email had no place in the search warrant.
"The e-mail's language is vile," Ekstrand said. "It is also perfectly consistent with the boys' assertion that no sexual assault took place that night. The time stamp on the e-mail of 1:58 a.m. -- shortly after the party -- is more evidence of a lack of a guilty mind."
http://www.wral.com/news/8484498/detail.html
See above.
yikes, now that is a twist, isn't it?
It's hard to imagine how that proves nothing happened unless this guy has a history of sending out sarcastic emails, like "Well, that went well, didn't it, boys? Let's try it again only this time we'll skin them alive."
Interesting, thanks!
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