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crazytown

(7,277 posts)
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 09:57 AM Feb 2019

Watson's Satement corroborated by Duke classmate.

Watson said she told her friends immediately after Fairfax assaulted her. Kaneedreck Adams, who attended Duke at that time, has corroborated her statement.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Kaneedreck Adams, an attorney who attended Duke with Watson, corroborated the allegation

Adams was at the time living in an on-campus apartment across from Watson, said Watson came to her on-campus apartment crying in the spring of 2000.

“She was upset,” Adams said. “She told me she had been raped and she named Justin.”

“She said she couldn’t speak, but she was trying to get up and he kept pushing her down,” Adams added. “She said he knew that she didn’t like what was happening, but he kept pushing her down.”


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Watson's Satement corroborated by Duke classmate. (Original Post) crazytown Feb 2019 OP
Just vile. Men like that ... I have no words except to say, as a man, I'm so sorry. CurtEastPoint Feb 2019 #1
Lieutenant governor's accuser also says she was raped by a Duke basketball player Roland99 Feb 2019 #2
"I knew that because of what happened...." Grey Feb 2019 #3

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
2. Lieutenant governor's accuser also says she was raped by a Duke basketball player
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 10:55 AM
Feb 2019
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2820573002

The second woman to come forward to accuse Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault also alleged she was raped by a Duke basketball player, and on Friday night a university spokesperson told USA TODAY Sports that school officials were “looking into” the allegation.

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“He revealed that Ms. Watson was the victim of a prior rape,” Nancy Erika Smith, Watson’s attorney, wrote in the second statement. “That is true. Ms. Watson was raped by a basketball player during her sophomore year at Duke. She went to the Dean, who provided no help and discouraged her from pursuing the claim further. Ms. Watson also told friends, including Justin Fairfax. Mr. Fairfax then used this prior assault against Ms. Watson, as he explained to her during the only encounter she had with him after the rape.

“She left a campus party when he arrived, and he followed her out. She turned and asked, 'Why did you do it?' Mr. Fairfax answered: “I knew that because of what happened to you last year, you’d be too afraid to say anything.”

A person with knowledge of the alleged sexual assault by the Duke basketball player told USA TODAY Sports the incident occurred in 1999. That person was granted anonymity because details of the incident have not been made public.

Grey

(1,581 posts)
3. "I knew that because of what happened...."
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 05:06 PM
Feb 2019

"He revealed that Ms. Watson was the victim of a prior rape,” Nancy Erika Smith, Watson’s attorney, wrote in the second statement. I have to assume he felt she was "Damaged Goods" and so it didn't matter. From what I have read on here "DU" that a lot of other people seem to agree with him.

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