Duke Rape Hoaxer Crystal Mangum Admits, After 18 Years, She Made Up a Lie for "Validation"

In 2006, a stripper named Crystal Mangum made up a completely-false rape accusation about Duke Lacrosse players.

The leftwing media showed, get this, no skepticism whatsoever for her story and campaigned to have these completely-innocent boys imprisoned.

They still haven't faced accountability.

Only now does she admit she made it all up for "validation."

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.

In her 2008 book "Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story," Mangum wrote, "I will never say that nothing at all happened that night," after which she provided graphic details of the alleged incident. However, she has told inconsistent accounts of the night throughout the past 18 years.

If you're too young to have watched this story unfold in real time, it's hard to explain how absolutely derangement of the left. You see it now, but this was one of the earliest Masks Off moments where they showed they just wanted to imprison Straight White Boys and it didn't matter to them if they were guilty or not. They wanted Equity in Imprisonment, and if that means that some innocent white boys have go to prison for 20 years to make the numbers look good, so much the better.

It quickly became obvious that this was a complete fabrication, but the left -- by which I mean the media -- bitterly clinged to their religion. Which is a nasty form of racist Marxism.

She's a Solid Citizen:

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Crystal Mangum is still in prison. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 for the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, and sentenced to serve between 14 and 18 years. Her projected release date was February 27, 2026, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. Given that the current date is December 12, 2024, she remains incarcerated at Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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