Obama Girl
Posted on 10/04/2008 8:56:08 AM PDT by abb
The A&T Register ncatregister.com Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Woman behind Duke lacrosse scandal speaks out
Accuser talks to Aggies about being a student again after controversy surrounding trial faded
Alexandria Harper Contributor
It was called a scandal but made into mockery.
The Duke lacrosse case hit radio and television stations by storm in 2007. Reporters from media outlets around the country scrambled to provide day to-day updates on Crystal Gail Mangum, the accuser, and three Duke Lacrosse players; Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, the accused.
Mangum, a former exotic dancer and escort, accused these men of sexual assault in Mid-March of 2006.
The investigation dragged on for over a year and was finally dismissed by Attorney General Roy Cooper.
The case was never argued in court and Mangum has yet to have her say about what happened. She still believes she needs to set the record straight.
On Thursday, April 2, Mangum made a surprise visit to Crosby Hall. Her appearance was only made known to a few select students enrolled in Dr. Myra Shird’s Argumentation and Debate class.
Preparations for Mangum’s visit were ongoing all semester. Students researched details of the case but were never really sure if Mangum would actually appear.
As Mangum took her seat, silence overtook the classroom. Students, eager to ask questions, began organizing notes and uncapping pens to write down her responses.
The class was witnessing history as this was the first time Mangum addressed a live audience to tell her story.
Dressed in a beige blouse and black necklace, Mangum read a prepared statement. She gave an overview of her position and then opened for questions One of the first questions asked was how she got the job dancing for the Duke Lacrosse players that night.
Mangum said, “I worked for an escort service connected to the nightclub and was hired to dance at the party.” Once her involvement was made clear, another student asked where and how did the attack take place.
Mangum said, “She was sexual assaulted by three men from behind and then sodomized by what she believed to be a broom stick.”
James Blocker, a senior Liberal Studies major, touched on a very sensitive issue when he asked, “Was the attack racially motivated?”
Mangum responded, “I was sexually assaulted by three people and they used racial slurs.”
In the heat of discussion a student posed a hypothetical question.
One said, “46 out of the 47 Duke Lacrosse players were DNA tested for possible semen excretion into the accuser’s body
The 47th member was not tested because he was black. Is it possible this 47th member could be the missing link in this case?”
Mangum said, “Absolutely not, my attackers were white.”
The same student wanted to know what Mangum thought about the CBS interview of Kim Roberts done by the late Ed Bradley.
Roberts, a second dancer present at the party was asked of Mangum’s condition after the alleged sexual assault took place.
Roberts said, “She [Mangum] obviously wasn’t hurt, she was fine.”
The student went on further to ask Mangum, “Why would she say that.”
Mangum replied “I believe Kim Roberts was paid off to not say anything.”
As questions of intent and motive were answered students left the discussion feeling a bit unsure of what to believe. Mangum’s powerful in class testimony altered many minds.
Some undergraduates more skeptical of Mangum’s commentary and felt there was no substantive evidence to prove her story. All students did however agree that justice was not served.
Missing DNA evidence found throughout the house was ruled out before police properly evaluated it. Assumptions regarding both the lacrosse players and Mangum character distorted much of the facts.
District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred due to his mismanagement of the case. These missing pieces combined made for a nasty situation.
Mangum however is looking forward. The soon to be N.C. Central alum, is set to publish a book entitled “The Last Dance for Grace” and hopes to set the record straight.
Mangum said, “She is striving to get her PhD and to open a group home for sexually assaulted women.”
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sounds like an Anita Hill thing.
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This... person should be in jail.
“She is striving to get her PhD and to open a group home for sexually assaulted women.”
Horse hockey!
We just now discovered this article even though it was published back in April. It’s amazing it never surfaced before.
“The case was never argued in court and Mangum has yet to have her say about what happened. She still believes she needs to set the record straight.”
I think she need to just shut up...she has said too much as it is.
Just an example of the sparkling writing found throughout the article.
This “person” should be in a either mental institution or prison.
wow...Jesse’s paying for her to get a PHD ?
sounds like an Anita Hill thing.
I WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING!!!
I was thinking Tawana Brawley. And that slug/thug/a$$hat Al Sharpton has NEVER paid the fines or restitution to the people he slandered.
Mark
This...person (and I use the term loosely) was ready to extort, imprison, and ruin 3 men in pursuit of $$$. She had tried this previously with 3 other men (see a pattern?), and that case was dismissed too. The only thing that stopped her here was that the men had the alibis, cash, and ability to fight it.
Shame on the people who convicted these young men in the media and on hearsay, and who have not come forth with apologies.
You call it horse hockey, but she probably has a team of liberals doing her school work for her. She’ll end up giving lectures in the auditorium next to William Ayers.
The article is a bit confusing, isn’t it?
For example: “All students did however agree that justice was not served.”
Seems to me that the lacrosse guys now have a case for libel.
Oh, yeah...
“Mangum said, “She was sexual assaulted by three men from behind and then sodomized by what she believed to be a broom stick.”
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Yea right! My ass! they did a rape kit on her! they would have found splinters in her ass had this been done. They would have found fecal matter and blood on the so-called broom if there had been a broom. They would have found trauma to the anus had this been done.
Sorry for the gory details everyone. I read a lot of true crime books. I know what they examine.
Obama Girl
I fully expect this lying whore to be given a tenured teaching position at a liberal college some time in the future.
Note:
Last paragraph in article:
Information and excerpts of the class discussion will be available on Mangum’s website, danceforgrace.com, in early May.
Now she is able to freely spout her lies all over again and can say she was never charged with lying to authorities or any other criminal act, therefore she must be telling the truth.
Actions taken or not taken due to political correctness or fear of racial repercussions always come back to haunt.
Mangum said, “Absolutely not, my attackers were white.”
Obviously not a virgin.
She should be sued for slander !
No, no. You have it wrong. Assistant AG in an Obama administration.
I believe justice was not served, also.
She should still be behind bars and Jesse's money grabbed to cover legal bills.
PRISON.
Lawyer for Duke?
Jammie Gorelick.
The lies that many black people believe are the Gospel truth.
If not for the seriousness of it all that would be hysterical. What a crock.
More like a lying SOS thing.
What is worse this that this woman still has a platform to cry “I was raped”. When are the Duke Lacrosse players going to sue her? That is what I want to know!
Give it time.
Entirely possible, given her race and victim status and the racial-political orientation of the matchbook-cover university she's fooling around at. Here is a fact to be kept in mind: in these declining days of the academy, when truth is considered a joke and politics rules all, any half-baked affirmative action-eligible candidate can get a PhD in the identity studies brothels, or what is laughingly called the "social sciences."
"Dissertations" are largely ghost written and approximate the quality of those old papers we used to write, like "What I did on my Summer Vacation.
Instead she gets a PhD and is going to start a woman’s group for battered women. How crazy is that?
Consider the thousands of people who believe that they have been taken up into an alien spaceship and experimented on.
Our minds are messy things. Then there is the 9/11 Truthers
Yes, they did examine her and took swabs. They found no splinters but found DNA from at least NINE men. Busy girl.
Oh she will write a book like Monica Lewinsky....in fact I think that she will tour and open her so-called group home with Monica! You realize this slut thinks she is a celebrity now don’t you?
danceforcash already taken, huh?
I know the found the DNA of nine men! Only I wonder if she new the names of those nine men! I mean da-da-DAMN! NINE???? SHEESE! Monica Lewinsky was not that big of a slut!
Yea I know there were no splinters, that is my point. The rape kit would have found all that evidence. She is telling a big fat freaking lie. The Duke Lacrosse players really need to sue her!!!
I expect the boys would just like to move on, but this will have disrupted their lives and hurt them indefinitely. One doesn't just dust himself off and walk away after having been victimized by an entire town and college full of obscene racist criminals such as these.
Criminal charges? Dude there must be some way to make her shut up. I know that we all know the truth, but this little bimbo will ruin their lives for the rest of their lives esp if she writes a book. They need a gag order or something.
She will be treated like one. This appearance at the school is just a trial run for her appearance on Oprah, The View, and the like, selling "her" book when it comes out. I hope she pays a decent wage to whoever writes it for her.
;O)
At least there's something we can agree on. Unfortunately she's judgment-proof, so little can be done about this.
Debut of lacrosse accuser's book delayed
By Gregory Childress : The Herald-Sun
Oct 3, 2008
DURHAM — The scheduled release of a book by Crystal Gail Mangum, the Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape, has been pushed back a few weeks.
The book, a memoir titled “The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story,” in which Mangum breaks her silence on the infamous case, had been scheduled for release on Wednesday.
But Vincent “Ed” Clark, who has been helping Mangum manage her affairs since the lacrosse case, said the release was delayed because the book's copy editor got sick. Clark said the new release date will likely be Oct. 22 and that he is planning a media event to coincide with the release.
“It'll probably be in Durham or Charlotte,” Clark said.
The book is being published by fire! Books, which Clark owns with two partners.
(snip)
Clark stressed that the book isn't entirely about the lacrosse case. He said Mangum, a recent N.C. Central University graduate, writes about her troubled adolescence and making bad choices, particularly when it came to men. He said she hopes that by writing the book that she can help young people make better decisions than she has.
“The story that we're trying to tell is that Crystal [Mangum] is a real person,” Clark said. “The error people make is that because she was doing that kind of work [working as a stripper] that she is a bad person.”
Clark said Mangum never intended to hurt anyone, but dodged questions about whether she still contends she was assaulted in the lacrosse house.
“I'll leave that nugget for the press event,” Clark said.
The Herald-Sun named Mangum for the first time in August because of her decision to publish a book and use her name in the title.
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