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Crystal Gail Mangum: Profile of the Duke Rape Accuser
FOXNews.com ^ | April 11, 2007 | Michael Y. Park

Posted on 04/11/2007 12:47:24 PM PDT by Saint Reagan

Some of the details of the Duke University rape case may never be solved, but one thing is startlingly clear: Crystal Gail Mangum, the woman who accused three college lacrosse players of locking her in a bathroom and raping her, has had a very troubled life.

Mangum has been identified by name publicly several times, including by lawyers during press conferences on the case.

According to North Carolina Department of Corrections records, she was born on July 18, 1978, to a truck driver. She grew up the youngest of three children, not far from the house where she claimed she was assaulted in 2006. Durham is a slow-paced Southern town with equally large populations of black and white residents and a history of racial tensions — including those between a wealthy, predominantly white university community and its poorer black neighbors.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: duke; lacrosse; mangummer; nifong; prostitute; rape
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To: stevio

Hey you. Watch that.

I’ll report you to Al “Tawana Banana” Sharpeton, the REVEREND Al, or Jessie “Hymietown” Jackson for those remarks!!


41 posted on 04/11/2007 1:58:06 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Saint Reagan

“Some of the details of the Duke University rape case may never be solved, “
There is no case, there is nothing to solve.


42 posted on 04/11/2007 1:58:33 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Saint Reagan


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Gail_Mangum
44 posted on 04/11/2007 2:05:25 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: stevio

Oh I agree! If she is not prosecuted for this, the extortion industry will get a real shot in the arm. Frankly, I would relish her prosecution exposing that faker, Jesse Jackasson.


45 posted on 04/11/2007 2:18:31 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: timydnuc
Timydnuc is right on target. While these boys are certainly innocent of rape, they are guilty of being a$$holes (not a crime in most states). I am convinced that these guys were less than polite to the strippers and I suspect that the N word was liberally tossed around. The stripper responded with the most effective tool at her disposal....an accusation of rape.
I would like to believe that young men around the country will learn something from this, but somehow I think they won't.
47 posted on 04/11/2007 2:33:03 PM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Saint Reagan

totally f’ing nuts


48 posted on 04/11/2007 2:41:11 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: MHGinTN
Whom hired her knowing that she worked that industry?

The atheletes hired a stripper knowing she took off her clothes for money (duh). They didn't know anything else about this woman, nor could they have. When she arrived they almost immediately decided they wanted nothing to do with her and sent her away. What's your point?

49 posted on 04/11/2007 2:50:03 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Fred911
I am convinced that these guys were less than polite to the strippers and I suspect that the N word was liberally tossed around. The stripper responded with the most effective tool at her disposal....an accusation of rape.

What you have written here is utterly retarded and evil. After a year of unsubstantiated charges against these young men, on the day of their complete exoneration you make up some more. Is Jesse Jackson paying your tuition too? A false accusation is an "effective tool" only to an amoral wad of scum. If you are into saying evil things and hating on people for no good reason, perhaps you would find more friends over at DU.

50 posted on 04/11/2007 2:59:01 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam

My point? well, I’ll tell you similarly to the way I told my son when he was in college. ‘Your pecker connects you to whom ever you lend it to. You swim in sludge you get sludge on you. The gateway to your soul is yours to keep, but yours to corrupt also. You will be known by the company you keep, the ways you indulge itches and which desires you seek to sate.’ Clear enough for you?


51 posted on 04/11/2007 3:05:52 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

[”Whom hired her knowing that she worked that industry?”]

The Duke Lacross Team hired her, as a stripper for a private team party. She was to entertain the boys by dancing and stripping.

If you think that this is wrong, then lobby your legislators to make it illegal. Right now, it’s quite legal.

But go ahead and blame the victims for the actions of a criminal. That’s a good way to advance justice. Just call all crimes the fault of the victims, and then we can empty the jails. Oh, wait. We’ll just have to fill them up again with the victims of the criminals.


52 posted on 04/11/2007 3:10:53 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: ZULU
>THAT is an “exotic dancer”???

"That's no 'exotic
dancer!' I'll tell you what that
is: That's a-- Hey! Ow!!! ... "

53 posted on 04/11/2007 3:10:56 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: jim35

You enjoy that drop from oveer the top? ... I have not blamed the vicitms, I have cautioned that smearing the stripper taints the payers, or it should. Pornography cheapens those selling it, making it, posing for it, and those buying it. The business this sick woman was involved with is demeaning to women and men. The boys were innocent of the charges trumped up against them. They were not choir boys however. Though there social backgrounds seem vastly above the stripper’s, their employing her shows there was less distance between them.


54 posted on 04/11/2007 3:14:57 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

[”I have cautioned that smearing the stripper taints the payers, or it should.”]

Smearing the stripper? You mean by telling the unvarnished truth about her? She’s an evil person, who tried to gain financially by falsly accusing three college students of a vile and heinous crime.

Remember how she encouraged her strip-mate to put bruises on her, to reinforce her later accusations?
Remember how she said “there’s still money to be made in there?”
Remember her attempted assault on a police officer, after stealing a taxi, by trying to run him over?

This isn’t a “troubled” woman, this is a serial criminal, and a conscience-free, whoring perjuror, who tried to send three young men to the hell of prison for a good portion of their lives.

She is evil, and should be punished.

Making this about the college kids who hired a stripper for a party is just plain wrong.


55 posted on 04/11/2007 3:21:54 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: theFIRMbss
Where is Obama? All Imus did (and wrongly and crudely) was call innocent people names, and Obama wants him fired. To be fair, Obama should demand that Crystal and Nifong should be arrested and charged. I am sure the lacrosse players would much rather be called a name, no matter what, than to have to go through what they did emotionally and financially. There is no comparison.
57 posted on 04/11/2007 3:28:09 PM PDT by Jane Austen
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To: Fred911
Wow, what a boatload of pure conjecture and speculation on your part. How did you come to your learned assertions? What verifiable techniques did you use to glean this "information" on the behavior at the party?

Agreeing with what was posted by timydnuc is one thing, but you took it to an ENTIRELY different level and one that isn't supported by any accounts I've read. Only in your imagination.

58 posted on 04/11/2007 3:29:22 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (I support the troops AND THE MISSION.)
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To: FarRightFanatic
“Ms. Mangum is a registered Democratic voter.”

Was there every any doubt?

59 posted on 04/11/2007 3:33:36 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
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To: FarRightFanatic
“Ms. Mangum is a registered Democratic voter.”

Was there ever any doubt?

60 posted on 04/11/2007 3:33:53 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
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