MSNBC: Alleged (Kobe Byrant) Victim seen bragging at a party 3 days later

MSNBC.COM ^ | 7/22/03 | MSNBC

[Smogger]

I just saw it on MSNBC. They said she was at a party a week ago, 3 days before Kobe was charged.

They said she was drinking (consumption by a minor) and playing cards, and was bragging about.....(MSNBC took out the audio at the end of sentence)

The story was confirmed by 5 people at separate places and times who were at the party and all gave a similar account of what happened.

When asked how the girl looked, the guy interviewed said she looked happy. Everyone was shocked to see her at the party given the incident.

I think someone may have even asked how hung was Kobe upon which she described with hand gestures. She seemed to be bragging according to a friend, but said she couldn't tell them what happened that night.

This just keeps getting better and better...

[CaptainJustice]

I heard she was killed in a raid on an Iraq villa...

[Dilbert56]

The friend's name isn't Tawana by any chance, is it?

[VRWCmember]

What about a victim of a rapist that is acquitted? Does she go to jail too just because the DA was unable to do his job well enough or because the rapist was able to afford a big shot attorney to twist and distort the case enough to raise "reasonable doubt"?

Such a system would do quite a lot to discourage rape victims from reporting the crimes.

[LanPB01]

I heard she can't stop watching "Jungle Fever," then bragging to all her friends how she's ate up with it.

That's a joke, people.

[phreebass]

You don't have to be an evil genius to conjure up up a fake rape charge. These charges aren't necessarilly part of a diabolical plot to squeeze money out of Kobe or an devious plot planned and plotted from before they even hit the sheets... the girl could just be an unstable attention-seeking wacko as it's been suggested before.. which would make a story like this hardly a surprise.

[Henrietta]

"Neal Boortz proposed yesterday, because of the high percentage of rape allegations that are false that a law should be passed that if you accuse someone of rape falsely, you go to jail for the amount of time the wrongly accused would have served if convicted.

I like the idea and fully support it. And I would extend it to hate crimes as well."

I would extend it to every crime. And make false reporters of a crime have the same punishment as those whom they accused would have had if convicted. This would cut down on a lot of crimes that are reported "for profit," so to speak.

And I definitely think that this was a "for profit" crime report. Flame away if you want to...

[Iwo Jima]

I think that anyone who knowingly and intentionally makes false charges of a crime against another person should be civilly and criminally liable for such outrageous wrongful conduct. I am not prepared to say that the punishment should always be the punishment which the wrongfully accused would have received, but that would be a factor to take into account. I would also make any police officer, prosecutor, judge, etc. who knowingly allowed an unsupportable prosecution to go forward similarly responsible.

[Chantal]

The first thing that comes to mind is when O.J. Simpson had
blood all over his hands and people were still defending him
it's pathetic....

[phreebass]

Given that the accuser is still anonymous in the mainstream media... I fail to see how a story about an anonymous cornfed colorado teenager would be be as newsworthy as dishing up the dirt on a millionare athlete celebrity. Sure, Enquirer is probably searching gangbusters for dirt on either one of em... dirt on Kobe would sell more papers though.

[Chantal]

The wise people knew better....Kobe was full of it, thinking
he was getting away with it.....not

[Capt.YankeeMike]

ref: your post #16. as usual, your showing your ...

Uh, duh, yeah, it would be a lot different if they had driven off a cliff,,,,they would both be DEAD, duh, uh, duh, uh....where do you continually come up with these asinine comparisons from?

[HurkinMcGurkin]

By the time we get to trial, the girl wil have been seen at Disney World, the running of the bulls, the Tour De France, the Whitehouse, Iraq and the moon. She will have been abducted by aliens, abused as a child, slept with her high school football team and cheated on college entrance exams. And anything else you can think up......

[Iwo Jima]

I don't think that the National Enquirer would be interested in paying for these people's stories. After all, they are giving it away, why pay for it? It seems as though the friends are having a grand old time getting on national TV talking about what they know (or say that they know). They are destroying this woman's credibility and the prosecutor's case. Of course, if what they say is true, the woman has no credibility and the prosecutor has no case.

[chance33_98]

ping

[kinghorse]

Not exactly the LA spin machine.

They had boys from the party on TV this morning confirming this. God you people have it in for the overdog on this one. Personally I think the girl is working toward a nice transferral of wealth vis a vis the justice system. I hate lawyers and the non productive means they use to make people wealthy.

Unstable, gold digging biotch immediately comes to mind when I look at this from afar. When she said it wasn't about the money was the key that told me it was about the money. Any bets she ends up wealthier? And the boys said she was fine. At a party 3 weeks after being so viciously defiled.

you people need to open your eyes and not confirm the stereotype people have about rabid conservatives (that they are racists to boot).

[Chantal]

No, I think Kobe deserves what coming to him.

[Wondervixen]

Oh, but the girl's background is untouchable according to her (bimbo) friends' interview with Rita Cosby the other day. If I recall the phrase correctly, "she's FLAWLESS".

[Alberta's Child]

You missed the point of that post.

Nobody here on FR knows Kobe Bryant. As far as I know, nobody here knows the "victim" in this case, either. If it weren't for incessant media coverage of this story, nobody here would even give a sh!t about either one of them. Regardless of what happens in this case, you're still going to have to pay your bills tomorrow.

[r9etb]

That's a nice assertion, but you have nothing to support it, and I can't point to dozens and articles and television interviews that concern the alleged victim and the source for ALL of them are "friends", classmates, and townies in Eagle Colorado.

Just one question for you: How is MSNBC finding out about all of these people? Who's sending them where?

This is straight from the Clinton playbook -- sounds like something Terry Lenzner might do.

Now, of course your fine, young Mr. Bryant has already admitted committing adultery with this girl. The only remaining issue is her willingness in the matter, and her actions immediately after the fact seem to indicate that she had not volunteered for sex.

Your unwillingness even to contemplate the possibility that the Lakers would protect their bottom line with a little character assassination says a whole lot about you.

[Vinnie]

because of the high percentage of rape allegations that are false that a law should be passed that if you accuse someone of rape falsely, you go to jail for the amount of time the wrongly accused would have served if convicted.

I thought there were laws against false accusations of rape, but I've never seen them enforced.

I fully concur with prosecuting false accusers.