Case decimated lives of 3 students, put prosecutor behind bars, cost university millions
Back in 2006, a North Carolina Central University student who worked part-time as a stripper was hired for a party held by the Duke University lacrosse team. After, she claimed she was raped by three team members.
The claims by Crystal Mangum destroyed at least for a while the lives of the three, put an overzealous prosecutor behind bars and cost Duke millions of dollars, reports have confirmed over the years.
Now she’s admitting, on video, what society has known for years: She made it all up.
She needs severe punishment. She should spend many years in jail. That was nothing more than a hate crime.
A long prison term is due
But now, as she nears the end of her prison sentence for second-degree murder for the death of her then-boyfriend in 2011, she confessed, during an interview on “Let’s Talk with Kat,” at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
RedState reported her allegations turned the community into a mob rule society.
“Players were ostracized and received death threats. The team was condemned by faculty, and their season suspended. Black Panthers set up camp on the quad. White residents of Durham were randomly beaten up. The local paper took the side of the stripper. The police intimidated witnesses who had alibis for the accused. The DA committed fraud, lied and misrepresented information (he was eventually disbarred),” the report said.
It got worse, “A group of 88 Duke professors took out an ad in April of that year in the student newspaper, strongly insinuating without evidence that the players were guilty of racism, sexism, and rape, and saying they (the professors) were listening as the community shared their stories of feeling targeted based on their race/sex,” the report said.