Rape Education Story #65

Sports star victim.

"We are seeing more and more of people's reputations being tarnished
with false felony reports," -- Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Duggan

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http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031125.wlion25/BNStory/Sports/

Globe and Mail
BREAKING NEWS
 POSTED AT 11:13 AM EST         Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 
Woman charged for false rape report against Lions WR

Associated Press 

Detroit — A woman who prosecutors say lied in making a rape allegation
against Detroit Lions wide receiver Scotty Anderson was charged
Tuesday with filing a false police report.

The 22-year-old Detroit woman said Anderson raped her two months ago
in his Dearborn apartment during a small gathering.

Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Duggan said Nicole Dolores Milburn was
not raped in September and never had sex with Anderson.

Filing a false police report is a felony that carries a maximum
penalty of four years in prison. Milburn is expected to turn herself
in over the next day or two for arraignment, Duggan said at a news
conference. She has refused to make a statement, he said.

"We are seeing more and more of people's reputations being tarnished
with false felony reports," Duggan said. "This also hurts every woman
who is raped and goes through that trauma because it causes other
women to pause and wonder if they're going to be believed when they
see somebody who is caught being a liar."

Anderson was placed on the injured reserve list Nov. 17 after he
sustained a high ankle sprain in the Lions 35-14 loss in Seattle a day
earlier. Before being put on IR, Anderson was leading the Lions with
325 yards receiving.

In May, Anderson and his brother were stabbed outside a Houston
nightclub. Anderson escaped the assault with relatively minor shoulder
wounds, but his brother, Stevie, a former NFL wide receiver, lost a
lot of blood with a severe thigh wound. Both have recovered well.

Anderson also was the victim of a carjacking in January 2002, when
authorities say a woman lured Anderson and his cousin to a Louisiana
parking lot where others laid in wait with guns to carjack him.

A high-tech security system directed police to the customized Cadillac
DTS' location, a remote area in the Cade community. It still was being
stripped when police arrived.

Anderson said in August before the season started that he was
determined to put those things behind him and concentrate on football.