President-elect Donald Trump addressed the latest confession by former stripper and present homicide convict, Crystal Mangum, who admitted this week to mendacity about being raped by three Duke lacrosse gamers in 2006.
Trump wrote a message on Fact Social early Saturday morning, lambasting Mangum for “destroying the lives” of the harmless males she accused.
“Lady admits to completely fabricating accusations within the horrible Duke Lacrosse Case. She destroyed the lives of those younger males,” Trump wrote.
Mangum’s confession got here on Thursday throughout an interview from her jail cell with the impartial media outlet “Let’s Speak With Kat.”
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Pictured on this file picture 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)
“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 a whole lot of different individuals who believed in me,” Mangum said. “[I] made up a narrative that wasn’t true, as a result of I wished validation from folks and never from God.”
The previous Duke gamers, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, had been declared harmless in 2007. The state lawyer basic’s workplace concluded there was no credible proof that an assault had ever occurred, and its investigation discovered no DNA, witnesses or different proof to substantiate Mangum’s story.
Nonetheless, the participant’s lives had been severely affected, in accordance with certainly one of their legal professionals.
One of many former gamers’ attorneys, Jim Cooney, advised The Associated Press that Mangum’s allegations brought about an “huge twister of destruction” for numerous folks concerned, together with the accused males, and that they had been wrongfully vilified nationally as “racially motivated rapists.”
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Different people who helped perpetuate the false allegations embrace Durham County district lawyer Mike Nifong, who was the lead prosecutor within the case, and former Duke College president Richard Brodhead, who punished the group over the false allegations and canceled the remainder of the 2006 season.
Nifong was later disbarred, and Brodhead apologized for the college’s “failure to achieve out” in a “time of extraordinary peril.” Brodhead was then certainly one of 30 people named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by the gamers and stepped down in 2017.
Pictured on this file picture 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)
Mangum cannot be prosecuted for perjury now, as a result of the statute of limitations on perjury costs in North Carolina solely lasts round two years.
Mangum was later indicted on a cost of first-degree homicide and two counts of larceny in March 2011. A yr earlier than that, she was convicted on misdemeanor costs after setting a hearth that almost torched her dwelling together with her three youngsters inside. In a videotaped police interrogation, she advised officers she had gotten 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.
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