A lady who accused three former Duke College males’s lacrosse gamers of rape almost twenty years in the past admitted she lied concerning the allegations and requested them for forgiveness.
Crystal Mangum, the previous unique dancer, confessed to mendacity concerning the encounter in 2006 throughout her look on the “Let’s Talk with Kat” podcast, hosted by Katerena DePasquale.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong,” Magnum stated throughout the episode, launched Wednesday. “And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me.”
“I made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God and that was wrong when God already loved me for who I was regardless,” she added.
The episode was filmed on Nov. 13 on the North Carolina Correctional Establishment for Ladies. There, Magnum is behind bars after being convicted of the second-degree homicide of her boyfriend in 2013.
Throughout the podcast episode, Mangum requested three former Duke lacrosse gamers, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, for forgiveness.
“I want them to know that I love them, and they didn’t deserve that, and I hope that they can forgive me,” Mangum stated.
All three of the gamers had been arrested following the sexual assault allegations, sparking a nationwide story. The gamers had been finally discovered to be harmless. None of their DNA was discovered on or contained in the accuser’s physique, the Duke Chronicle reported.
The district legal professional who labored on the case, Mike Nifong, was disbarred, together with withholding key proof, in keeping with Fox Information.
Following the case’s dismissal in 2007, Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann sued the college and later reached an undisclosed settlement, the outlet wrote.
