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I never bothered to read many of the full statement by the faculty members, not just the big group one but the, apparently from what I've read about them, more extreme individual statements.
Maybe they are some of the folks the players ought to actually try to recover damages from for defamation, libel and slander.
I feel bad for the accuser, as perverse as that sounds. Of course not as bad as I do about the victims of her false accusations. But the circumstances of her life, especially before this incident really seem to suck for reasons beyond those of her own making.
She does need to be punished, however, if it turns out that her statements can be proven to be false. And I think there's a chance as Nifong defends himself from charges against him, that the nature of her accusations and how they didn't match the evidence will become more clear.
No matter what, it's not appropriate that now that the charges didn't stick at any level, that the media and everyone just kind of shrug and lose interests with kind of a "Oh, well it turned out that these particular rich white athletes weren't rapist but that doesn't mean what we said wasn't generally true" attitude. The people who screwed up these guys' lives need to be held responsible.
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