The Duke University Case: A Stripper's Lament

When the Duke University La Crosse Team rape case first broke out there was sheer pandemonium. As is the norm in the human realm, there were two sides to the coin and it was hard not feel for either side. Yet, just about everyone was on someone's side.

The young stripper claimed she had been raped by three members of the Duke La Crosse team. The three gentlemen claimed their innocence. What was a society to think?

Now almost a year later, the young woman, who has also supposedly given birth to a child that she claims, was fathered by one of the alleged rapist, is recanting her story...well somewhat.

According to a news article in the News Observer, in a December 21 interview with one of the investigators for the Prosecutor, the stripper stated that she was "no longer certain that the men had vaginally assaulted her with their penises."

The fact that she is not sure of whether or not a man's penis entered her seems to blow the rape charge out of the water. A woman knows if she was raped. She remembers every part of it. A rape victim will not forget what her attacker did, unless she was in a stupor.

The recanting of her story and the fact that she was the ring leader in ruining the character of the three young men accused will not only screw up her life, but it affects everyone it touched. Even society!

How does one believe a woman who takes off her clothes for a living when she says she was raped and then changes her story not less than a year later? How does one believe any woman who cries rape? Does the air of suspension always surround a rape victim?

The sorrow of this young woman is now the sorrow of many. The District Attorney has stepped away from the case and figure out his whole part in this fiasco of a case. The young men will have an air of doubt following them wherever they go. Her children will have to live with the fact that their mother falsely accused innocent men of a crime that seems not to even have existed.

I often tell my children that whatever you choose to do in live effects not only you, but everyone else within your circle of influence. With this case I was able to show him exactly how.