Duke LaCrosse DA and Accuser's Prior Gang Rape Allegation
There's follow-up news on the Duke Lacrosse player accuser's filing of a report in 1996 claiming three men raped her in 1993, when she was 14. Her ex-husband now says he encouraged her to file the report. The accuser's father, meanwhile, said the earlier rape didn't happen -- or at least he never heard about it.
Kenneth McNeil, a Durham man who was married to the woman for 17 months, said in an interview Friday that three years after the incident, he urged her to make the report to Creedmoor police to help her overcome the trauma. "I wanted them to pay for what they did," said McNeil, who was then engaged to the woman.
He has no first hand-knowledge of the incident, which occurred when the accuser was in high school. Here's what he says she told him during their engagement:
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