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 Speak With Kat” on Thursday.
“I testified falsely towards them by saying that they raped me after they did not and that was fallacious, and I betrayed the belief of lots of different individuals who believed in me,” Mangum stated. “[I] made up a narrative that wasn’t true as a result of I needed 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 occasion in March 2006. The gamers she accused had been arrested, igniting a nationwide controversy and conversations about racism.Â
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Pictured on this file photograph from August 2010, Crystal Mangum, who was on the heart of the Duke College lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a person on April 3, 2011, at a Durham, N.C., condo. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh Information Observer/MCT)
The three gamers, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, had been all discovered not responsible of the crimes. However Mangum was not prosecuted for perjury attributable to questions on her psychological well being.Â
“She could have really believed the numerous completely different tales that she has been telling,” stated former North Carolina Legal professional Basic Roy Cooper stated on the time.
Mangum can’t be prosecuted for perjury now as a result of statute of limitations on perjury prices in North Carolina solely lasts round two years.Â
The allegations even resulted within the crew having to cancel a recreation towards Georgetown in March 2008.Â
Former Durham County district lawyer Mike Nifong, who served because the lead prosecutor within the case, stated in a March 2006 interview with CBS Information that “there isn’t any doubt a sexual assault came about” and that it was “racially motivated.”Â
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Crystal Mangum (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh Information Observer/MCT)
“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 few of the issues that had been accomplished. It makes against the law that’s by its nature one of the crucial 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 accountability for Mangum’s allegations.Â
Mangum additionally asserted that “one thing” occurred that evening in a e book 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.Â
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 prices after setting a hearth that almost torched her house together with her three youngsters inside. In a videotaped police interrogation, she informed officers she bought right into a confrontation together with her boyfriend on the time, not Daye, and burned his garments, smashed his automotive windshield and threatened to stab him.
In accordance with North Carolina Division of Corrections information, 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.Â
In 1993, when she was 14 years previous, Mangum claimed to have been kidnapped by three males, pushed to a home in Creedmoor, N.C., 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.Â
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Pictured on this file photograph from August 2010, Crystal Mangum, who was on the heart of the Duke College lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a person early Sunday, April 3, 2011, at a Durham, North Carolina condo. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh Information & Observer/MCT)
Creedmoor Police Chief Ted Pollard stated Mangum filed a report on the incident on Aug. 18, 1996, three years after the rapes allegedly came about. The case, nevertheless, was not pursued, as a result of the accuser backed away from the costs out of worry for her life, in accordance with her kinfolk.
Vincent Clark, a buddy who co-authored Mangum’s self-published memoir, stated he hopes folks do not 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 am unhappy for her. I hope folks notice how tough it’s being her,” Clark stated.
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