While I don't follow much College sports, especially lacrosse, but of course you could NOT escape this story back in 2006.
For those who forgot about it, or don't recall... in short, a young woman (stripper) was hired to dance at a Frat Party of sorts.
She came forward after, and said several (at least 3) Duke lacrosse players all raped her at the party. They were arrested and charged, and went to court.
Their names, faces, and lives were thrown into the gutter... but... in the end, there was a Trial, and the 3 players were found innocent.
The Judge dismissed the case, based on "lack of evidence", but that was not before their entire youth in College and young lives were wrecked.
All of the players were White, and the accuser was, ready... she is Black.
So of course it looked horrible for the privileged white kids from such a prestigious University.
Now... nearly 20 years later, this woman has come forward and admitted, it was ALL a lie, and she made up the entire story.
Here is the shocker... or not?
She's currently in prison serving time for Murder after she was found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend to death in 2011.
Of course she loves God, and hopes that God will make everything better now!
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Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 publicly admits she lied
RALEIGH, N.C. —
The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her – making national headlines that stirred tensions about race, class and the privilege of college athletes — has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.
Crystal Mangum, who is Black, said in an interview with the “Let’s Talk with Kat” podcast that she “made up a story that wasn't true” about the white players who attended a party where she was hired to perform as a stripper “because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong,” Mangum, 46, said in the interview, which was released Monday. The interview was recorded last month at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is incarcerated for fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2011.
The former Duke players were declared innocent in 2007 after Mangum's story fell apart under legal scrutiny.
The state attorney general’s office concluded there was no credible evidence an attack ever occurred, and its investigation found no DNA, witness or other evidence to confirm Mangum’s story.
The Durham prosecutor who championed Mangum’s case was disbarred for lying and misconduct. Prosecutors at the time declined to press charges against Mangum for the false accusations.
Mangum said in the podcast interview that she hopes the three falsely accused men can forgive her.
“I want them to know that I love them and they didn’t deserve that,” she said.
Durham-based podcaster Kat DePasquale said she wrote to Mangum because she was curious about the case that got so much attention, and that Mangum wrote back saying she wanted to talk.
> https://www.wbaltv.com/article/crystal- ... n/63184220
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