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... at the Duke lacrosse party is unable to verify that a rape occurred, and is herself on probation for a conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a former employer.
At first, a stripper who performed at a Duke University lacrosse team party doubted the story of a colleague who told police she was dragged into a bathroom and raped. Now, Kim Roberts isn't so sure.
"I was not in the bathroom when it happened, so I can't say a rape occurred and I never will," Roberts told The Associated Press on Thursday in her first on-the-record interview. But after watching defense attorneys release photos of the accuser, and upset by the leaking of both dancers' criminal pasts, she said she has to "wonder about their character."
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Roberts, 31, was arrested on March 22 eight days after the party on a probation violation from a 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a photofinishing company in Durham where she was a payroll specialist, according to documents obtained by the AP.
This story just gets more ridiculous by the day.
It's inconceivable to me that Distric Attorney Nifong will ever convict anybody of anything but insignificant misdemeanors arising from that party. But what if, the day after his re-election, he announces that he's got to drop the charges because — Golly! Who knew? — the accusations can't possibly stand-up in court? Always-uneasy Durham will go rock-throwing, car-burning nuts. This entire matter should never have been anything but, as these things go, a minor assault case — but the exploitation of that minor assault case for media advantage has painted the city into an ugly corner that it won't get out of easily or painlessly.
Well, having lived with Lacrosse players in college and after having been to many parties with "strippers" it would not take much to convince me that this could have happened. Drunk guys who pay for a stripper often believe that for a little more money they can get more than a strip show. When denied such a proposal I do believe a drunk college athlete could develop an attitude of "well your a stripper which makes you a hooker and a whore too and you will do what I want"
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Well, having lived with Lacrosse players in college and after having been to many parties with "strippers" it would not take much to convince me that this could have happened. Drunk guys who pay for a stripper often believe that for a little more money they can get more than a strip show. When denied such a proposal I do believe a drunk college athlete could develop an attitude of "well your a stripper which makes you a hooker and a whore too and you will do what I want"
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