"Her body temperature is eighty-five degrees, and she is unable to breathe on her own...The woman is bleeding from five deep cuts across her forehead and scalp; patients who lose this much blood are generally dead. Her skull has been fractured, and her eye will later have to be put back in its place...The victim's arms and legs are flailing violently, the aftereffects of massive brain damage...both halves of her brain have lost their ability to control the movement of her extremities, to say nothing of her ability to think or feel...There is extreme swelling of the brain caused by the blows to the head."
Those are quotes from the book "I Am the Central Park Jogger," taken from an online article from 2003, for which this is the address:
The people who did this to her were released from prison, apologized to, and awarded millions of dollars.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 31, 2016 @ 8:12 p.m.
