Tawana Brawley Picture (AP)
From Wikipedia:
The Tawana Brawley rape allegations involve Tawana Brawley, an African American woman, who in 1987 at age 15 received national media attention in the US for accusing six white men, some of them police officers, in the village of Wappingers Falls, New York of rape. The incident soon became a media circus, promulgated primarily by Reverend Al Sharpton and by attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason. There were no indictments in an investigation conducted by a grand jury in October 1988, which cited a lack of evidence, concluding she had not been abducted, assaulted, raped or sodomized.
Today on November 18, New York Daily News reported that Glenda Brawley and Ralph King, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to press Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which was concluded as a hoax.
Tawana Brawly has changed her name to Maryam Muhammad and now is a converted Muslim. Tags: