Glenda Brawley whose daughter was not raped twenty years ago, is petitioning New York State governor and attorney general, Eliot Spizter and Andrew Cuomo to “reopen” the case.
NEW YORK (AP [1]) — Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flash point, Tawana Brawley’s mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.
Brawley claims,
“New York state owes my daughter.”
Aside, Ms. Brawley’s daughter does not appear to be party to the petition, and has changed her name. Who can blame her? I believe that Ms. Brawley’s daughter is not a relevant part of the story.
Ms. Brawley asserts that New York State, (that is, me) owes her. So just what do I owe Ms. Brawley? At one point New York owed Ms. Brawley an investigation. Debt paid in full. The grand jury heard, what, one hundred eighty witnesses, of whom Ms. Brawley was not one. Ms. Brawley fled her subpeona and still a fugitive.
Does Ms. Brawley contend that New York State, (again, me) somehow owes her money? Even if the rape allegations had been true, which they were not, the state does not owe monetary compensation to victims of crimes. There was never any debt to be paid.
I am not sure for what Ms. Brawley trolling, sympathy or money. but she’ll get none from me.
Calmer analsysis, Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page [2]; Sister Toldjah [3].
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