MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/03/28/duke.lacrosse.suspended.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
The team members are refusing to talk to investigators and might be charged with aiding and abetting. If these allegations are true it truly is frightening and sickening that students at any university could do that and then try to cover up for each other, let alone at Duke. Add to that the racial issues that appear to be involved which makes it even more tragic and horrific.
"A woman told police she and another dancer were hired to perform March 13 at a private party in an off-campus home. The dancer, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was pulled into a bathroom, beaten, choked and raped by three men.
No one has been charged.
Armed with a judge's order, police took DNA samples with a cheek swab from 46 of the lacrosse team's 47 players last week. The 47th player, the only black member of the team, did not have to provide DNA because the dancer said her attackers were white.
"I needed to have the information about who will be charged," said District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "I feel pretty confident that a rape occurred."
The case has roiled the campus, raised racial tensions and heightened antagonism between the affluent students at Duke, which costs about $43,000 a year, and the city of Durham, which has a large population of poor people and is about evenly divided between white and black.
The alleged victim is black, which has proved a source of tension on campus.
"The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done," Nifong said. "It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so."
The team members are refusing to talk to investigators and might be charged with aiding and abetting. If these allegations are true it truly is frightening and sickening that students at any university could do that and then try to cover up for each other, let alone at Duke. Add to that the racial issues that appear to be involved which makes it even more tragic and horrific.
"A woman told police she and another dancer were hired to perform March 13 at a private party in an off-campus home. The dancer, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was pulled into a bathroom, beaten, choked and raped by three men.
No one has been charged.
Armed with a judge's order, police took DNA samples with a cheek swab from 46 of the lacrosse team's 47 players last week. The 47th player, the only black member of the team, did not have to provide DNA because the dancer said her attackers were white.
"I needed to have the information about who will be charged," said District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "I feel pretty confident that a rape occurred."
The case has roiled the campus, raised racial tensions and heightened antagonism between the affluent students at Duke, which costs about $43,000 a year, and the city of Durham, which has a large population of poor people and is about evenly divided between white and black.
The alleged victim is black, which has proved a source of tension on campus.
"The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done," Nifong said. "It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so."