Kane Accuser is Former UB Cheerleader; Website Claims Numbers Being Floated for Possible Settlement

Some are expressing doubts about the veracity of the accounts of the young woman who is making the accusations.

 

 

This newspaper has learned that the young woman who has accused South Buffalo’s Patrick Kane of raping her in his Hamburg home is a 21-year-old aspiring model and actress who was a psychology major at the University of Buffalo.  And there are reports beginning to surface that her friends are already talking numbers to settle the case with Kane in the range of one to two million dollars.

We are withholding the identity of the accuser at this time even though Kane, a 26-year-old NHL hockey superstar who recently signed an $84 million, 10-year contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks is front page news at home and across the country as a result of the rape allegation.

One example of Kane’s front page notoriety is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story of Aug. 6, four days after the alleged rape at Kane’s lakefront home, in a story headlined “NHL watching investigation involving Patrick Kane.”  There are many more, too many to mention in this story.  And of course television has given the young superstar plenty of air time, a lot more than he earned with his hockey exploits, sensational as they were.

The website SportsMockery.com published a story Monday night saying an unnamed source with several ties to the accuser says her friends are already talking settlement numbers because nobody, including the accuser, wants this to go to trial. 

The identify of Kane’s accuser has been withheld by law enforcement as the investigation by the Hamburg Police and the Erie County District Attorney’s Office moves forward.  But we have confirmed her identify as a young woman who was a former cheerleader at UB who reportedly went to Kane’s home on the morning of Aug. 2 with a second woman after meeting Kane at Buffalo’s downtown Sky Bar.

The Buffalo News has reported that their sources say after the two women went to Kane’s home on Old Lakeshore Road the accuser says she went into a room by herself “where Kane followed her, overpowered her and raped her.”

There was no description of what room she went into where the alleged rape occurred, whether it was a bedroom, bathroom, or even a kitchen, or what the second woman may have seen or heard during the alleged encounter.  The Kane camp, including famed defense attorney Paul Cambria, has not commented on the events of the morning of Aug. 2 inside Kane’s home although news of the investigation of an alleged rape by a NHL hockey star has been widely disseminated across country.

The News’ sources report that the young woman had bite marks on her shoulders and a scratch on her leg after the alleged attack, and this newspaper has learned that she left the house in her woman friend’s car after the incident and called a relative from the car who advised her to go to a hospital and get a rape kit, suggesting she was advised by someone with some experience with law enforcement.

Now it would appear that whoever is giving the Buffalo News information is from the alleged victim’s camp and she has reportedly retained counsel in the matter with a law firm that once represented her father in another case.  That is the office of Buffalo attorney Tom Eoannou.

The young woman who is claiming she was raped by the three-time Stanley Cup champion is not a stranger in South Buffalo hockey circles, according to sources, and her name is “already out there on the street,” according to at least one credible source familiar with the hockey scene in Kane’s home turf.  Other sources say several pictures are circulating of the young woman and they are expected to surface in the near future. 

We have pictures of the young accuser but as with her name, we are not publishing any of the photos at this time out of respect for her family even though Kane’s picture has been in just about every newspaper in the country.