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jetbag513 t1_jdxzdh8 wrote

Reply to Woman framed in ‘rape fantasy’ plot speaks out after conviction of ex-U.S. Marshal by drkgodess

This reminds me of some story that happened quite a while ago, maybe someone can refresh my memory? Big feud amongst the bosses at some company in Connecticut, I think. There were like 3 or 4 harassing 1 woman. Sent her an actual pig's head. Ebay was involved somehow (not the pig's head). They were framing her for some serious shit too. It was a real doozy.

Anyone remember this? Maybe 3 or 4 years ago?

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jollybumpkin t1_jdxyv5g wrote

Reply to N.Y. to pay $5.5 million to man exonerated in writer Alice Sebold rape case by OutsideObserver2

Alice Sebold is the author of two really moving, well-written, troubling books. I read both, several years ago.

Obviously, she has a heart. She now knows what happened, she publicly apologized to Broadwater, and she is heartbroken over it. There is no doubt that she suffered a horrible, traumatizing attack. She was very young at the time, in her first year of college.

The books:

The Lovely Bones It's the story of a delightful little girl who is kidnapped, imprisoned, sexually abused and murdered by another man who lives in her town, told from the point of the little girl.

Lucky is the terrifying story of how she was raped by a stranger in a remote area when she was a first-year student at Syracuse University. The perpetrator was identified as Anthony Broadwater.

Sebold has publicly apologized to Broadwater, though she blames a faulty legal system more than herself. She said,

>“I am grateful that Mr. Broadwater has finally been vindicated, but the fact remains that 40 years ago, he became another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system. I will forever be sorry for what was done to him."

She also said,

>Forty years ago, as a traumatized 18-year-old rape victim, I chose to put my faith in the American legal system. My goal in 1982 was justice – not to perpetuate injustice, and certainly not to forever, and irreparably, alter a young man’s life by the very crime that had altered mine.”

Broadwater probably wouldn't have been convicted if it hadn't been the hair analysis, which was junk science, though it's possible that the police and DA felt it was legitimate at the time. Sebold feels she was pressured by the police and district attorney to identify him as the perpetrator, after they persuaded her that the hair analysis proved that he was the attacker.

It's a horrifying story from Broadwater's point of view. He was denied parole at least five times because he refused to take responsibility for a crime he didn't commit.

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