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Another woman accuses De Anza ballplayers of rape (Duke Redux?)
Mercury News ^ | 04/09/2007 | By Leslie Griffy and Sean Webby

Posted on 04/10/2007 2:55:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A young woman has reported that De Anza College baseball players sexually assaulted her at a party months before members of the team were accused of raping another woman at the same house.

"The sheriff's department is aware of the allegation and will look into it," said Sgt. Ed Wise of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, adding that deputies take rape allegations seriously.

The fact that the allegations involve the same house is "frightening," Wise said.

Sources close to the investigation say the woman came forward with claims she was raped in December only after sheriff's deputies began checking a 17-year-old girl's report that she was assaulted at the house in unincorporated San Jose in March. Investigators said Monday that they first heard rumors about the December party with the players and the woman, who was 18 to 21 years old, during interviews while following up on the March case.

It was unclear Monday whether the same group of men are involved in both reports. Wise said the two incidents potentially share some of the same suspects.

Nobody has been charged in connection with the allegations.

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Paging Mike Nifong! You're wanted on the white courtesy phone.
1 posted on 04/10/2007 2:55:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Withholding judgement until physical evidence is produced.


2 posted on 04/10/2007 2:59:20 PM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Could boys possibly be THIS STUPID?


3 posted on 04/10/2007 3:03:00 PM PDT by Hildy ("man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.)
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To: Quick or Dead
Withholding judgement until physical evidence is produced.

Sensible answer.

Too bad Nifong - in spite of the physical evidence - didn't follow the law.

4 posted on 04/10/2007 3:03:35 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Warning. If your tagline is funny... I may steal it.)
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To: Hildy

we’re talking about college boys..yes, they can be that stupid..


5 posted on 04/10/2007 3:06:14 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots..)
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To: Hildy

Yes they can, and group could be even dumber.


6 posted on 04/10/2007 3:06:48 PM PDT by stockpirate (A nation that does not honor it warriors will be defeated by a nation that does.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Sources close to the investigation say the woman came forward with claims she was raped in December only after sheriff's deputies began checking a 17-year-old girl's report that she was assaulted at the house in unincorporated San Jose in March.

Not to make light of the possible event, but I hope there is a missing comma in that sentence.

7 posted on 04/10/2007 3:06:55 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Responsibility2nd

We have laws. They need to be followed.

Nifong forgot that.


8 posted on 04/10/2007 3:09:53 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Hildy
"Could boys possibly be THIS STUPID?"

Testosterone + alcohol = rocket fuel. Having said that, these wouldn't be the first minors to cry rape when they stayed out past curfew.

Like others here, nowhere near enough info at this point to begin forming anything like an educated opinion about this incident.

9 posted on 04/10/2007 3:13:15 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Hildy
"Could boys possibly be THIS STUPID?"

Testosterone + alcohol = rocket fuel. Having said that, these wouldn't be the first minors to cry rape when they stayed out past curfew.

Like others here, nowhere near enough info at this point to begin forming anything like an educated opinion about this incident.

10 posted on 04/10/2007 3:13:15 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

College girls can be pretty stupid too. They do things like have sex with someone, then regret it, then report it to the police as rape, so they can save face with their friends.


11 posted on 04/10/2007 3:14:24 PM PDT by Domicile of Doom (Hey boy why is there dirt in my hole? I dunno Boss.)
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12 posted on 04/10/2007 3:14:54 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Could boys possibly be THIS STUPID?

Yes

Years ago, I lived in the same upscale apartment complex in which DeAnza (a Junior College without dorms) housed their football players. They were not good boys.

13 posted on 04/10/2007 3:15:52 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (History convinces me that bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Domicile of Doom

agreed..I’m going to withhold judgement until more info comes in..


14 posted on 04/10/2007 3:28:53 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots..)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Good idea to wait a little and see how much there is there. I noticed that the Mercury just lowered the Sunday paper price to $1. They’re confronting their mortality.


15 posted on 04/10/2007 3:32:46 PM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: Responsibility2nd

De Anza is a community college, most kids that attend community colleges live at home, since the college is in their own community, don’t they? Or do community colleges now recruit athletes?


16 posted on 04/10/2007 3:35:47 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Responsibility2nd

Jeez, the first girl was a high school student, who was taken to the hospital after the party. The party wasn’t a team party, but at the house where two players lived, eight members of the team were at the party, as well as students from the general student population (and probably a few non-students, as well). All eight were suspended and the team’s games cancelled for this week, as well as practices, even though only eight members were present.


17 posted on 04/10/2007 3:47:28 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Responsibility2nd

I suspect this is a LOT more common with “Thugball” players, than with Lacrosse players....

It probably doesn’t make much difference in the age of players either — high school, college or professional level..

Thugball has earned a pretty shabby reputation the hard war — they worked on it.

Any female attending a Thugball event or party without a “bodyguard” probably doesn’t have an I.Q. above room temperature....

Semper Fi


18 posted on 04/10/2007 4:28:53 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The fact that the allegations involve the same house is "frightening," Wise said.

Frightening? Re-assign this one immediately!

19 posted on 04/10/2007 6:20:48 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Hildy

You said — “Could boys possibly be THIS STUPID?”

Well, yes..., but it’s not considered stupid, by that “crowd” — the 13-18 year-old crowd and what’s going on with the young and later teens these days. This *is* the “culture” that is being inculcated from even the age of 13 years old, in school.

See a series of posts that I did on this thread —

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814975/posts?page=47#47

It’s a really sorry state of affairs for our up and coming generation, to see them getting so perverted and thinking it’s not anything other than having some fun. They’re actually “preying” on one another. The biggest predators for the young teens — are the young teens themselves...

Regards,
Star Traveler


20 posted on 04/10/2007 6:21:18 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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