Philip Seligmann, father of wrongly indicted lacrosse player Reade Seligmann, released a statement Thursday denouncing Crystal Mangum's assertion in her memoir that she was assaulted in March 2006.
"We are presently evaluating all available legal options. If Ms. Mangum and those associated with her continue to slander Reade, we will have no choice and will not hesitate to utilize those options," Seligmann said in the statement, which also reiterated the state's findings that no crime had occurred.
Mangum's memoir, "The Last Dance for Grace," was released Friday. In the book, she says a sexual assault involving three members of the lacrosse team occurred at a party on 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in March 2006. She does not name any alleged assailants.
"I want to assert, without equivocation, that I was assaulted," she writes. "Make of that what you will. You will decide what that means to you because the state of North Carolina saw fit not to look at all that happened the night I became infamous."
Charges against the three former lacrosse players were dropped in April 2007, when N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper declared them innocent. At the press conference Thursday, Mangum and her co-author and agent Vincent Clark said they stood by Cooper's decision but wrote the book for closure.
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