Crystal Mangum admits to fabricating 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal accusations [View all]

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Source: Duke Chronicle

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Crystal Mangum admits to fabricating 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal accusations

David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, former members of Duke men's lacrosse, were all falsely accused of rape in 2006.


David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, former members of Duke men's lacrosse, were all falsely accused of rape in 2006.
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By Dom Fenoglio , Ranjan Jindal , Sophie Levenson and Abby Spiller
December 12, 2024 8:32pm EST

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and rape.

Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke men's lacrosse players of rape in 2006, admitted she lied about the allegations and asked for David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann's forgiveness. ... Mangum made her confession in an interview published Wednesday on "Let's Talk with Kat," hosted by Katerena DePasquale, at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Unrelated to the lacrosse case, Mangum is currently in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder of her then-boyfriend in 2013.

"I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't, and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me," Mangum said in the interview. "{I} made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God."

Then-N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper did not prosecute Mangum for perjury after the case was dismissed, saying at the time that the investigators thought "she may have actually believed the many different stories that she has been telling." The statute of limitations on perjury charges typically lasts two years in North Carolina law, meaning that Mangum can no longer be prosecuted for lying under oath.

Duke Athletics declined The Chronicle's request for comment on Mangum's statement. University administration, former University President Richard Brodhead, then-head men's lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and Seligmann did not respond to The Chronicle's request for comment in time for publication. ... Mangum's statement comes nearly two decades after she asserted that she was raped by the lacrosse players. Until now, she had never publicly stated that it was not true.

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Read more: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/12/duke-mens-lacrosse-scandal-2006-crystal-mangum-admits-fabrication-rape-18-years-later-apologizes-kat-depasquale-evans-finnerty-seligmann-brodhead-pressler-nifong

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I can easily find all those articles at DU from the spring of 2006 about this incident.

Edited: well, not easily. The advanced search machine goes back only to 2011. The unadvanced search technique goes back that far.