Well, I blame them both equally. She violated her probaation by being drunk. Her fault. She initially lie to cover her ass on this. Nifong did not coerce her to do this. Her fault. She stuck by her story, named names. Nifong may have pressured her, but she succumbed. She didn't have to do this.
And to spare herself a few years in prison, or whateever the penalty is, she is prepared to send 3 innocent men to prison for 30 years?? Nothing Nifong did or threatened justifies this. She is a despicable slug.
Nifong pressed this and lied for his own benefit. This is in no way different from what the woman did. They were prepared to ruin the lives of innocent people who had done them no harm simply for their personal benefit.
I've read where NIfong did it for the pension. I hope he won't need it because he is supported for the rest of his life by either the NC or Federal prison system. He is a very dangerous man, and needs to be maade an example of.
I don't know what Nifong threatened her with, and I don't know enough about CGM to know how meaningful different threats would be.
Clearly, she's not 'mother of the year' material, but that doesn't mean she'd want her children taken away. She's clearly too messed up to care for her children properly, but that doesn't mean she has no feelings for them. Even messed-up people can sometimes have strong maternal instincts, and it would not be hard for a corrupt person to capitalize on that.
If a mother is faced with the choice of either losing her children or making some baseless accusations against some strangers, what's she supposed to do? I'll admit that in this case, were CGM fully rational, she'd realize that even if she avoids losing her kids today she's bound to do something stupid later and lose them anyhow, but I would expect CGM is too messed up to realize that.
Many parents would do 'anything' for their kids. CGM is pretty messed up, but I would suspect that maternal instinct has something to do with her naming specific people.