Duke University rape “victim'' Crystal Mangum has finally come clean and made up her accusations that she was raped by three lacrosse players while performing at a wild party.
In an interview on the Let's Talk With Kat podcast, a former stripper serving a sentence for second-degree murder admitted that she made up this thread, which has been repeated by far-left mainstream media.
The false charges turned into a 24-7 nightmare for the three players. The media vilified them for months, and the case led to the ouster of prosecutors who swallowed the allegations hook, line, and sink.
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Mangum, who is Black, became a national cause for twinning in 2006 when she accused three white players of raping her at a party. This followed the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax and was a precursor to the 2014 University of Virginia rape hoax. The story turned into a moral panic about white “racism.”
The far-left media, led by the New York Times, convicted the players as well as the professors' group. Duke canceled its lacrosse season.
“Before and during (the players’) trial, at the same time he was running for re-election, Mike Nifong, then Durham County District Attorney and lead prosecutor in the case, publicly spoke to the press. In a 2006 interview with CBS News, he said, “There is no doubt that sexual assault occurred,'' the Duke Chronicle recalled.
Nifong initially said DNA would prove which players were innocent. But when all the test results turned out to be negative, Nifong reversed his statement, saying courts used to have to “handle sexual assault cases the old-fashioned way. Witnesses take the stand. “I told him what happened,” he said. to them,” and DNA evidence is lacking.
Mr. Nifong was disbarred by the North Carolina Bar on June 16, 2007, for lying in court and withholding DNA evidence that would ultimately exonerate the defendants from liability for Mr. Mangum's claims.
The state attorney general took over the case and dismissed the charges.
The players sued the university and President Richard Broadhead.
Nevertheless, Ms. Mangum repeated the lies in her 2008 book, “The Last Dance for Grace: The Story of Crystal Mangum,'' the Chronicle wrote. Details of the alleged incident. But for the past 18 years, she has inconsistently told what happened that night. ”
She spent most of that year in prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death. Mangum is a repeat victim of domestic violence.
In February 2010, Mangum's 9-year-old daughter called police after a fight between her and her former boyfriend. “While police and her three children were at her apartment, police found Mangum slashing the tires on her boyfriend Milton Walker's car, smashing the windshield with a vacuum cleaner, and smashing clothes in the bathtub. He was accused of starting the fire,'' the Raleigh News & Observer reported. “Ms. Mangum was convicted of child abuse, criminal damage to property, and resisting an officer. Felony arson charges against Mangum were dismissed.”
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Eleven years after being found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 14 to 18 years in prison, Mangeum has been acquitted.
“I gave false testimony against them, saying they raped me when they didn't, and that was a mistake. I owe the trust of many others who believed me. He betrayed us,” Mangum told podcaster Kat DePasquale. “(I) wanted validation from people, not God, so I made up stories that weren't true.”
Mangum said she wanted to apologize to the podcaster, the Chronicle reported.
“I have long wanted to publicly apologize for the Duke lacrosse incident,” Mangum wrote to DePasquale in a letter obtained by the Chronicle. “In fact, I lied to the public, my family, my friends, and God about this incident, and I'm not proud of that.”
“I hope that (the players) can heal and trust God and know that God loves them and that God loves them through me and lets them know they are worthy. I hope,” Mangum told DePasquale.
The Duke hoax was probably not Mangum's first. It looks like she stole Tawana Brawley's ridiculous story and changed some details.
As reported by Fox News in 2007, Mangum claimed that in 1993, at the age of 14, three men kidnapped her, drove her to Creedmoor, North Carolina, and raped her.
She submitted her report three years later. Fox reported:
However, the case was not pursued because the accuser withdrew the charges fearing for her life, according to her relatives.
Tawana Brawley
Brawley's story is similar, but far less believable.
In 1987, she disappeared from her home in Wappingers Falls, New York. She was found in a garbage bag filled with dog feces. Brawley falsely claimed that four white men (three police officers and a prosecutor) had kidnapped her and sexually assaulted her. The incident made the hoax writer Al Sharpton, now an anchor on MSNBC, a national celebrity.
A grand jury determined that she made up the story to avoid violence from her mother and violent stepfather.
One of the defendants, prosecutor Steven Pagones, has filed and won multiple defamation lawsuits.
Brawley is still repaying the $190,000 penalty that increased due to interest. Pagones filed a petition with the court to have his wages garnished.
