Will Justice be Served in Hofstra Rape Fraud?
Danmell Ndoyne Put Four men in Jail With Lies, and is Still Free
Sep 18, 2009
Nearly every news outlet appeared to have reported by Sept. 16 the names, crisp photographs, and home towns of four men falsely accused of rape. The Huffington Post even released the street address of one of the men's family in the Bronx, New York, in its article, "Hofstra Rape: Woman Gang Raped in Hofstra University Dorm."
The New York Post reported that same day the story that had been thought to be true at the time, gloating one comment from a female student that one of the accused had tried to dance with her, but she "thought he was ugly."
The next day, however, every paper seemed to have digested and defecated the previous day's hottest headline to make room for the next, which stated that the four men had been released.
Facts About the Rape that Did Not Happen at Hofstra
The four men were at a local party where they met a women, Danmell Ndoyne, though none of them could have told anyone that much.
They accompanied this woman that they did not know to a place unfamiliar to them where they did not know what was going to happen when they got there.
What did happen was that Ndoyne lead them to a dorm bathroom. When they got there, an unconfirmed number of them had had sexual intercourse with her.
Nearly 90 Hours of Purgatory Followed Euphoric Hofstra Party
Having sex with strange, loose women could, and will, bring an array of problems upon young, virile men engaging in poor decisions. 25 years in prison is not one of them.
But that is exactly what happened to this foursome while a fifth, according to reported police statements on Sept. 16, walked the Hofstra campus in fear as the New York Post reported that "[police] know who he is." While the four young men who were identified were in custody, charged, and awaiting trial, the real criminal remained free.
Redemption for the Innocent
On the evening of Sept 16, a New York District Attorney had confronted Ms. Ndoyne with a cell phone video of the actual event showing not that she had been bound and abused as claimed, but that she had had consensual sexual intercourse.
The young men were freed that evening having been exonerated from the rape charges after it was obvious that their guilt only lay in poor taste and judgment.
After Redemption of False Rape Accusations, Where is the Justice?
Ms. Ndoyne has been suspended from Hofstra where she will likely remain a pariah, but, for many, especially the defamed victims, it is not enough.
This story of a young woman being brutalized only to wind up being a lie is all too reminiscent of similar lies that made national headlines.
A very recent story of this nature occurred in March, 2006. A young college student and single mother named Crystal Mangum was hired by members of the Duke University lacrosse team to dance at a party for $400 an hour.
After leaving the party, Ms. Mangum accused three of the players of having raped her over the course of 30 minutes. Contrarily, two of the players named had alibis. One was only at the party briefly during the time of the alleged rape, and another was not there at all.
Ms. Mangum had never been charged with any crime as the case became fogged over by the mishandling of it by then North Carolina District Attorney, Michael Nifong. Most recently, she published a book titled The Last Dance of Grace. The Crystal Mangum Story. With it she hopes that people will see that she is "not just someone who tried to frame someone else who is innocent of sexual assault."
Two years before the scandal at Duke University, New York's St. John's University basketball team found themselves in a similar situation when Sherri Urbanich-Bach hosted a sex party for a number of the players.
Upon not receiving the $600 she claimed they had agreed to pay her, she called the police and stated that she had been raped by them. Charges against the St. John's players were dropped when one of them had disclosed a cell phone video of the verbal altercation that followed the roughly hour-long get together.
Ms. Urbanich-Bach was charged with three crimes, one of which was filing false rape charges. The St. John's players were disciplined by their university with punishments that included expulsion and permanent suspension.
Another story goes back more than 20 years. In Nov., 1987, Tawana Brawley (then 15) had been missing for several days from her home in Wappinger Falls, New York.
When she'd been found, she told authorities of having been abducted by several white men after getting off the school bus, one of whom had a badge.
Confirming her story was her found clothing that had been partially burned and smeared with feces while racial slurs had been written on her body.
FBI investigators found in the midst of this nationally gripping story of discrimination that Tawana Brawley's body had no evidence of any sexual assault, and that she'd cut school to visit her ex-boyfriend in nearby Orange County Jail.
Due to the defamatory claims, Brawley later had to pay one of her victims $185,000 for damages.
The questions on many people's minds today is, is suspension from Hofstra University punishment enough for Danmell Ndoyne?
This article was written with the guidance of Brian C. Pascale, Esq., an attorney in Mineola, New York, specializing in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, Labor Law, and Medical Malpractice actions.
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