[OldFriend]

And to think colleges and universities refuse to divulge ANY information about a student to their own parents.

[dennisw]

These two overdoses put a huge dent in her credibility. So does her breezy banter at a party about the size of Kobe's schlong. However they will not be admitted in court. A woman who is (allegedly) raped does not have her past history of instability put on display.

But there's another way of informing the pool of potential jurors and that's via the mass media and the internet. The internet will dig it up and the media will spread it far and wide. And that's what's going on. In the OJ trial his lawyers poisoned the jury pool and the jurors while they were sitting on the case. With Kobe it's public curiosity about the accuser that's tainting potential jurors.

[KeyWest]

Other side is Kobe took advantage of an "emotionally fragile" woman. All gets down to his zipper.

[Keith in Iowa]

Is it just me, or does the coverage of this whole stinkin' Kobe thing just deja vu all over again? Looks like the media is giving Kobe's accuser the Lewinsky treatment...

[Freebird Forever]

"I think it was just a cry for help,"

This insightful FR thread was posted last summer.

WOLF! - WOLF!: False charges of rape often a call for help

Excerpt

''As bizarre as it is, it seems there are people who feel so needy that they resort to burlesque and even to self-harm,'' said Dr. Mark Feldman, an Alabama psychiatrist who specializes in ''factitious disorders,'' in which patients invent crises as a way of getting attention.

[Snerfling]

Pinging all rapetards, your victim is a 'drug taking, multiple suicide attempting, mentally unstable teen'.

[ValerieUSA]

So this exonerates Bryant?
I think it condemns his judgement even further.
Let's say the girl is a true mental case -- why is a married "family man" introducing her into his life with something he calls a consensual sexual encounter? Does he give no thought whatsoever to his selfish actions and the possible consequences?
What if this disturbed girl had committed suicide right in his room after having sex with him?
What if the media scrutiny pushes her over the edge?
How does an unstable, depressed history make it unlikely she was raped? Doesn't it increase her vulnerablility to sexual assault?

I find this "news" to be dangerous to the hundreds of thousands of young women who take anti-depressants. Does that mean their credibility is destroyed and they are now fair game for rapists because no such victim would dare report the crime after this case?

[StolarStorm]

The goal of the Kobe defense team is to cause so much dirt to be dug out that the accuser kills herself.

[Fitzcarraldo]

This girl could have the terrible misfortune of having to deal with depression, etc., and then was brutally raped. I'd give her the benefit of the doubt.

[MHT]

I am very concerned about making this girl out to be a nut because of hospital admission. I have known people who have happy, successful lives, who have had hospital admissions during stress, drug interactions, and even extreme grief reactions. I would trust their words anyday against a young Godlike athlete who lied from the beginning about having an affair (then again, that's only sex....), but a person for whom the rules do not apply.

It's a slippery slope when a person's credibility is immediately undermined with nuances, winks-and-nods, because of earlier "psychiatric" services he or she received. We've come further than than in this society.

What I find more interesting is the new $4-million ring he gave his wife. Gift of love? Bribery? Payback?

[dogbyte12]

I have nothing to say about the article, but about the headline. I knew from the headline it was from the NY Post before I clicked on this thread. They need to quit trying to be a brittish tabloid. It's getting quite silly. I can easily spot any headline of theirs because they are so cheesy. How about a literal tabloid originality.

[Search4Truth]

The saying "A fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind.

Whether Kobe raped this demented teenage slut or not, he deserves the grief he is getting for even having given her a second look. His wife should make an example of him for all to see by divorcing him and taking all that he has.

And we wonder why there are so many problems among young black men, when they have such pathetic role models as Kobe Bryant to follow.

It is now part and parcel of the culture of young black men that one must always have a bitch on the side.