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Duke accuser lying, second stripper says

Roberts says alleged victim wasn't raped by lacrosse players at party

Kim Roberts
Gerry Broome / AP file
Kim Roberts was the second exotic dancer at a Duke lacrosse team party at which another stripper claims she was raped.
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updated 2:43 p.m. ET Oct. 13, 2006

Kim Roberts, the second stripper in the Duke University rape case, told "60 Minutes" that the accuser is lying about being sexually assault during the off-campus party in March, ESPN reported Thursday.

Roberts had called the allegations a "crock" in June.

In the show, to be aired Sunday, CBS correspondent Ed Bradley asks Roberts, "In the police statement, [the accuser] describes the rape in this way: 'Three guys grabbed Nikki.' That's you," in reference to Roberts' dancing name Nikki.

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"'Brett, Adam and Matt grabbed me. They separated us at the master bedroom door while we tried to hold on to each other. Bret, Adam and Matt took me into the bathroom.' Were you holding on to each other? Were you pulled apart?"

"Nope," said Roberts, who also said it was the first time she had heard this account of the event.

Roberts also told Bradley that the accuser "obviously wasn't hurt ... because she was fine," and denied that she helped to dress the other stripper after the alleged rape, ESPN said.

Roberts was sentenced to 120 days of house arrest on Sept. 25 for an unrelated probation violation.

She was arrested nine days after the March 13 party, and charged with violating the terms of a probation agreement stemming from her 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a photo finishing company where she worked as a payroll specialist.

Roberts was with a woman, a student at nearby North Carolina Central University, who told police she was raped in a bathroom by three men at the off-campus party.

According to arguments filed by defense attorneys, Roberts said during her initial interview with police that the rape allegations were a "crock" and that she was with the accuser the entire time they were at the party. In an April interview with The Associated Press, Roberts said she was not in the bathroom and therefore could not say for certain the accuser was not raped.

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A grand jury indicted three lacrosse players _ Reade Seligmann, 20; Collin Finnerty, 20; and David Evans, 23 _ on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. Defense attorneys have strongly proclaimed their innocence. They have not been arraigned.

Mark Simeon, Roberts' attorney, said his client will begin the house arrest on Oct. 9 and will be allowed to leave her home to work. The period of house arrest will be cut to 60 days if she catches up on her back restitution payments. Her probation will run through December 2009.

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