paid her and Kim Roberts $400 each, and
then another $400 each — for a total of $800
each — when they decided to go back into 610
North Buchanan the second time. (If true, this
was new, as previous reports had the dancers’
pay at $400 each.) “I’m just trying to get it
over with,” she said about going back into the
house. Mangum said the players started to
get “riled up again,” so Roberts left for good.
“She was smart enough to leave,” Mangum
said. “I was obviously intoxicated.” She said
she believes the lacrosse players slipped her
a Mickey Finn. “I honestly believe there was
12
something in my drink because to this day
I never felt that way before,” she continued.
“It felt like my heart rate had dropped really
quickly. I was dizzy. I couldn’t maintain my
balance.” Mangum went back into the house;
Roberts was behind her. “Then one of the
guys, when we go inside, they were like, ‘You’re
gonna finish your job. You’re not leaving until
you finish.’”
Then she and Roberts got separated. “I ended
up in the bathroom,” Mangum continued.
“And I could hear Kim outside ... In the
bathroom there’s like a door before you get
to the bathroom. The guy named Dan, or that
calls himself Dan, closed the door. And he
looked at me. He’s like, ‘Sweetheart, you’re
not leaving.’ And I got this chill, like this weird
feeling, like, ‘Oh no, this is not good’ kind of
feeling. And they took me in the bathroom.
And I kept hearing all these people yelling
like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Give it, black bitch.’ And they
were just yelling like different things. And I
could hear people banging on stuff. It was like
really loud.” She said the door to the bathroom
remained half open. But as soon as she was
in there, the three guys “just started taking
my clothes off. And next thing I know, I feel
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this excruciating pain in my anal area, and
I started crying and telling them to stop. But
they wouldn’t stop. They just kept doing it. And
when I got to the hospital and they took the
samples, it was like my skin was coming out
like from the inside in my vaginal area and my
anal area. And they found, like, wooden pieces.
Like, I guess they used a broomstick.”
None of the records of the medical exams
mentioned the discovery of wooden shards
in Mangum’s vagina or anus. They used a
broomstick? I asked. “The broom did it,” she
said. She was sure. “I felt like I was gonna
die,” Mangum continued, “like my stomach
was cramping really bad. Like I felt like I
was having a baby. My stomach was hurting
really bad. And the guy that was in front of
me, he kept telling the other guys to stop, like
he didn’t want them to — he was like, ‘Man,
you’re gonna kill her. Stop.’ He was like telling
him to stop. And the other guy was like, ‘We’re
not gonna kill her. We just wanna make her
feel good.’ And they were laughing at me and
stuff. And they were like, ‘Are you in pain? Are
you hurting?’ And it was like, ‘I thought black
girls liked it like this.’ And I was crying and
telling them to stop, but they just kept doing it.”
She said she thought to herself that while she
had “flirted” with the players when she first
arrived at the house, she could not understand
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