The title of this page is a quote from a videotaped confession of one of the adolescent defendants in the trial for rape and attempted murder of the Central Park jogger, as reported by the Los Angeles Times in 1990.
That's the address of the article.
The defendant was describing something that another participant in the rape said to the victim before the victim was hit with a brick.
More than one defendant also talked about the victim being hit with a metal pipe, in videotaped confessions.
The defense lawyers tried to convince the jury that the confessions were coerced. However, what strikes me about the confessions is how specific they are.
To say that you and your friends raped and hit someone is not the same thing as saying how you and your friends did those things. Did the defense lawyers try to convince the jury that police officers wrote a script for the suspects to read for the camera, that police told the suspects to add details like the victim being told to "shut up, bitch" before being hit with a brick to make her stop screaming or crying?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 30, 2016 @ 6:02 p.m.
