President-elect Donald Trump rebukes convicted murderer and former stripper Crystal Mangum To lie About being raped by a trio of Duke lacrosse players, saying it “ruined” their lives.
“The woman pleaded guilty to completely fabricated charges in the terrible Duke lacrosse case,” Trump said. wrote Truth on Social.
“He destroyed the lives of these young men.”
Mangum is currently serving a 14-year sentence at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend in 2011.
She admitted publicly for the first time Thursday that she fabricated the explosive 2006 story that Duke students David Evans, Colin Finnerty and Reed Seligman raped her while the exotic dancer was performing at a team party because she “She wanted validation not from God but from people.”
“I committed perjury against him by saying he raped me when he didn’t and that was wrong,” Mangum, 46, told independent outlet Let’s Talk With Kat.
The three players were arrested, the case quickly made national headlines and racial tensions rose when former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said in a CBS News interview that “there is no doubt that a sexual assault occurred”. And that the attack “was racially motivated.”
Nifong claimed that DNA testing would prove the players’ guilt in raping Mangum, but he retracted his statement after the results came back negative.
Meanwhile, former Duke University president Richard Brodhead chastised the team over false allegations. In addition to accepting the resignation of then-head men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, Brodhead canceled the rest of the team’s season and suspended three players from the university after they were convicted of rape.
All three players were found innocent and the charges were dismissed in April 2007.
Mangum cannot be legally punished for lying, because the statute of limitations for perjury in North Carolina is two years.
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