New York City is honoring the Central Park Five, a group of men who were wrongfully convicted as teenagers of the 1989 rape of a jogger, with the naming of a gate at the park.
A co-defendant of the so-called"Central Park Five," whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned. New York City is honoring the Central Park Five, a group of men who were wrongfully convicted as teenagers of the 1989 rape of a jogger, with the naming of a gate at the park.
Each member of the so-called Central Park Five, who are Black and Latino, spent six to 13 years in prison before being exonerated in 2002 after evidence linked convicted serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes to the attack. The incident left a 28-year-old white victim with permanent damage and memory loss from the assault.
"When you look at that concept, you say to yourself, well, how do we heal this?" she said during the City Hall hearing."Because somewhere we are going wrong and we've got to sit down and fix it somehow."
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