Former stripper and present homicide convict Crystal Mangum confessed to mendacity about being raped by Duke Lacrosse gamers in an interview on the unbiased media outlet “Let’s Discuss With Kat” on Thursday.
“I testified falsely in opposition to them by saying that they raped me once they didn’t and that was improper, and I betrayed the belief of quite a lot of different individuals who believed in me,” Mangum stated. “[I] made up a narrative that wasn’t true as a result of I wished validation from folks and never from God.”
Mangum, who’s serving a jail sentence for murdering her boyfriend, falsely accused three Duke gamers of raping her whereas she was acting at a crew celebration in March 2006. The gamers she accused have been arrested, igniting a nationwide controversy and conversations about racism.
The three gamers, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, have been all discovered harmless of the crimes. However Mangum was not prosecuted for perjury attributable to questions on her psychological well being.
“She might have truly believed the numerous completely different tales that she has been telling,” stated former North Carolina Lawyer Normal Roy Cooper stated on the time.
Mangum can’t be prosecuted for perjury now as a result of statute of limitations on perjury expenses in North Carolina solely lasts round two years.
The allegations even resulted within the crew having to cancel a sport in opposition to Georgetown in March 2008.
Former Durham County district legal professional Mike Nifong, who served because the lead prosecutor within the case, stated in a March 2006 interview with CBS Information that “there’s little question a sexual assault passed off” and that it was “racially motivated.”
“The knowledge that I’ve does lead me to conclude {that a} rape did happen,” Nifong stated. “The circumstances of thc rape indicated a deep racial motivation for a number of the issues that have been carried out. It makes against the law that’s by its nature probably the most offensive and invasive much more so.”
Nifong was later disbarred on June 16, 2007, by the North Carolina State Bar for mendacity in court docket and withholding DNA proof which in the end absolved the defendants of duty for Mangum’s allegations.
Mangum additionally asserted that “one thing” occurred that evening in a ebook she printed in 2008 titled “Final Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story.”
“I’ll by no means say that nothing in any respect occurred that evening,” she wrote.
Mangum was indicted on a cost of first-degree homicide and two counts of larceny in March 2011. A 12 months earlier than that, she was convicted on misdemeanor expenses after setting a hearth that just about torched her house together with her three youngsters inside.
In a videotaped police interrogation, she advised officers she acquired right into a confrontation together with her boyfriend on the time, not Daye, and burned his garments, smashed his automobile windshield and threatened to stab him.
In response to North Carolina Division of Corrections data, she was born on July 18, 1978, to a truck driver. She grew up the youngest of three youngsters, not removed from the home the place she claimed she was assaulted in 2006.
In 1993, when she was 14 years previous, Mangum claimed to have been kidnapped by three males, pushed to a home in Creedmoor, NC, 15 miles away from Durham, and raped. She stated one of many males was her boyfriend on the time and was a bodily and emotionally abusive man seven years older than she was.
Creedmoor Police Chief Ted Pollard stated Mangum filed a report on the incident on Aug. 18, 1996, three years after the rapes allegedly passed off.
The case, nevertheless, was not pursued, as a result of the accuser backed away from the fees out of worry for her life, in keeping with her family members.
Vincent Clark, a good friend who co-authored Mangum’s self-published memoir, stated he hopes folks don’t rush to judgment — echoing one of many oft-cited classes of the lacrosse case itself.
Clark stated Mangum realizes she has psychological well being issues.
“I’m unhappy for her. I hope folks notice how tough it’s being her,” Clark stated.
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