Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Raping ‘The Lovely Bones’ Author Is Suing New York For $50 Million
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. While his name was finally cleared last November, Broadwater is now suing the state of New York for $50 million for unjust imprisonment and the decades he spent on the sex offender registry stemming from his wrongful conviction.
She should write a book on false accusations and the guy who she wrongful accused writing about his experiences of having his life destroyed. All proceeds should go into his pockets and all who helped incarcerate an innocent man should be sent up the creek for the damages they have caused. I hope he gets $10 billion and takes everything from these crooks. This false accusations and expanding statues of limitations needs to be done away with because memory fails and our brains can play tricks.
Shouldn’t she be banned from any place that buys sells or has books ? After all her crime was committed with a book oh let’s add paper pencils pens or any way of non verball communication
In defense of Ms. Sebold, the author, she was raped as a college freshman. The DA lied and goaded her mistaken ID into getting a conviction.
BWJ, you are completely right. Police officers frequently decide early on in a case who did it. Then they influence witnesses to agree. Often ignoring any evidence that would conflict. In the Grissom case that I mentioned earlier, one of the officers in Saint Claire County went to her superiors with concerns that Sara Ylen had been known to lie before. They basically told her to drop that part of the investigation.
Gerald
As former law enforcement, I can tell you from what I saw, Females (At least when I did my tour of duty) were not taken seriously on the job. Back then it was almost unheard of for a female cop to even make it to corporal, let alone any higher command position.
Many were meter maids (Not even sure that exists anymore) or community service/outreach positions if not dispatchers or clerical positions. Now days we have female police chiefs, Sheriffs and even higher positions like FBI, CIA agents.
But there are still Cops who think women should not be in law enforcement, so it makes sense that they didn’t take her seriously in the story above. Similar to Those on the registry. When we call due to being attacked, threatened, or harassed, we (Or at least I) get told to file a report online. Not taken seriously or with care or concern.