For someone not wanting to attack the alleged victim you sure succeeded in spite of yourself.

this is a "victim" that needs to be exposed for what she and her mother are.........!!!

Well it looks like she will begin attending her fourth college in the fall. The blowback from this is the final straw for a person who has been running away from responsibility and her own behavior for years. Sadly, her mother is an enabler for her blaming others- wow three schools! In the immortal words of Chris Rock "What ever happened to just plain crazy."

So What? once you put yourself in the spot light or the media does, you are open game.
It's called freedom of speech or press...

Steve,
where does your statement come from. do you know Sanchez? do you know her or what she or her mother are? I know neither Sanchez nor the woman who accused him nor her mother so I have nothing to add about her or her character. As far as attending a number of colleges is concerned, however, I do know this. Many SC undergrads attended at least to colleges (one JUCO) and SC. Could a person have started at one JUCO and then switched to another, or gone from a JUCO to a Cal State to SC. Of course, and it means nothing. Scott, george had it right. I like the blog, check it often, but this is really too far.

Confucious say: "Even if tight end is wide open, do not make pass, for if you are safer doing it yourself, then you score touchdown and receive glory..."

I disagree. How is this attacking the victim? All of the facts are being presented, that's all. If she didn't want that to occur, she should have thought a bit more before making a false claim.

The bigger issue isn't whether or not her transferring is linked to this case or should she be exposed, etc. Or even, how will Sanchez deal with this? Honestly, Sanchez will come out of this stronger than you can imagine, so don't worry about him.

Rather, the real question should be, how does this help women in the future who find themselves in a legitimate situation? It doesn't. Every time a woman makes a claim such as this, it just makes it harder and harder for people to believe.

And, that's the worst part of it all.

Fight On!

She was exposed on Mark's bed.

Scott, as a journalist you really need to try a bit harder to be less sloppy with your reporting.

"During the course of today's decision by the district attorney to drop charges against Mark Sanchez . . ."

In fact, no charges were ever filed against charges. The district attorney's office decided not to press charges.

How does citing the accuser's school-hopping qualify as an attack?

In the interest of full and fair disclosure, now that the alleged victim is no longer a victim, as defined by the da's office finding insufficient evidence to press charges, what's her name? She's 19 and legally an adult. Mark Sanchez gets his name dragged through the mud for six weeks, now it's her turn. Play with fire and sometimes you get burned. The law of unintended consequences.

mv,
people are who they appear to be or "what you see is what you get". my guess is that if you went back into both mother and daughter's life you would find more "bad judgements". we already know mark likes to suck 'em up (that will change i suspect). what i would like to know is why the police decided to take mark into custody, cause him to post bail, jack him around for 6 wks ect. on what appears to be the false say so of mom/daughter. do they now go and pickup mom/daughter, cuff them, make them post bail, jack them around for 6 weeks and them let'em go????????
this whole episode appears to be poor police work from day one.........!!!

Okay, Scott mispoke about charges being filed. Obviously they were not. However simply reporting the facts about the accuser's daughter (talking about convoluted) is simply good reporting. Scott didn't draw any conclusions from this piece of information and considering three witnesses refuted the accusation as well as Sanchez himself there is ABSOLUTELY no evidence, who is there to be PROTECTED? Moreover, how can can the truth be arrived at when it is one sided?

Honestly, it is this sort of thinking that muddies the waters and makes ACTUAL victims not come forward and onlookers suspicious of accusers of high profile, current or future (potential) millionaires. George and MW should reconsider their ideas of fairness.

why is this girl referred to as a "victim" and the girl in the duke lacross case referred to as an " erotic dancer or stripper"??? just a question

Seems a lot of readers are equating the decision not to press charges with the arrestee's innocence. Just as a not guilty verdict does not equate to innocence, neither does a decision not to prosecute amount to a determination that what is alleged to have occurred did not occur. It simply means that the DA's office isn't confident it can convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. The claim, the specific nature of which has not been reported (and appropriately so, in my opinion) may or may not have been "false."

This new nugget of information adds nothing to our understanding of what did or didn't happen; without more, it simply provides a catalyst for baseless speculation about the character of the alleged victim.

Kahlil,

My guess is that it's because she is just that, a 'stripper.' People probably look at her and look down upon what she does and may even think that she put herself in that situation, so they call her that instead of a victim. Which is odd since, if the allegations are true, she was in effect, gang raped (i.e., by multiple assailants).

Now, the other explanation could be that in the Duke case, the victim is black, but I really hope that this isn't the case.

Fight On!

Per the LA Times:

Richard Taklender, a deputy district attorney, wrote that "the case is essentially a one-on-one allegation," and that medical exams on Sanchez and the woman were "reviewed and found to be inconclusive on the issue of force."

According to the worksheet, the woman said she was willingly "making out" in bed with Sanchez while not fully clothed, but that she did not want to have intercourse.

The report also said that another couple in the apartment were unaware of a problem and that Sanchez's accuser later spent about 20 minutes with the couple and "did nothing to convey through words or conduct that she had been assaulted."

To file an assault complaint sounds like the actions of one very "confused" young lady (maybe created by a confused mother)? What ever happened in that room was the equal fault of both parties. Its just a shame that the law has forced its way into our bedrooms, forcing fine young men to have to prove their innocents from false changes.

Eitherway, thanks Scott for being brave enough to report the facts as they happen. That is the job of a good reporter.

Fight On!

tony...in this country there's a presumption of inocence. unless you can prove with the facts that something wrong has taken place then there is no crime. people can thnk and say what they want, that doesn't make it so......sorry!!

Tony is 100% correct.

Open season on transfer students at SC!

I guess we can all start attacking any and all punks standing on a corner these days.

better to get after the mother/daughter combo who, with the help of the l.a. police dept. were able to smear mark's character/reputation with a phone call.

Well, I'm not sure what steve is apologizing for and/or what he thinks his comments add to the discussion. His response to my post is, as far as I can tell, nonresponsive with respect to anything I wrote. If he disagrees with something I wrote, perhaps he should explain precisely what and why.

"In fact, no charges were ever filed against charges. The district attorney's office decided not to press charges" - can anyone explain to me what this means?

see "rick" about six entries up.......!!!

your right MT she is a stripper, but she is also a single mom attending school, but more importantly she is also a navy vet. So in other words she defended her country. Just funny how the media portrayed both accusers

""Richard Taklender, a deputy district attorney, wrote that "the case is essentially a one-on-one allegation," and that medical exams on Sanchez and the woman were "reviewed and found to be inconclusive on the issue of force."

According to the worksheet, the woman said she was willingly "making out" in bed with Sanchez while not fully clothed, but that she did not want to have intercourse.

The report also said that another couple in the apartment were unaware of a problem and that Sanchez's accuser later spent about 20 minutes with the couple and "did nothing to convey through words or conduct that she had been assaulted."

To file an assault complaint sounds like the actions of one very "confused" young lady (maybe created by a confused mother)? What ever happened in that room was the equal fault of both parties. Its just a shame that the law has forced its way into our bedrooms, forcing fine young men to have to prove their innocents from false changes.

Eitherway, thanks Scott for being brave enough to report the facts as they happen. That is the job of a good reporter.""

Well Richard left out the little fact that the bio sample came from some other lucky guy. Which would make all the issues inconclusive now, wouldn't it?

more of nothing from nobody..!!

Does anyone believe the DA's office would come out with a statement that, in their judgement, Mark Sanchez is innocent, and they overreacted at the beginning of this case? They don't admit misstakes, it's a elective office.