What We Uncovered About the Sexual Assault of Alice Sebold and a City’s Buried Rape Crisis
There’s one indisputable fact about the events of the night of May 8, 1981: Alice Sebold, who had earlier that day just completed her freshman year at Syracuse University, was brutally raped while walking home through a park. Anthony Broadwater was arrested several months later and subsequently convicted of the assault.
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There’s one indisputable fact about the events of the night of May 8, 1981: Alice Sebold, who had earlier that day just completed her freshman year at Syracuse University, was brutally raped while walking home through a park. Anthony Broadwater was arrested several months later and subsequently convicted of the assault. He’d spend 16 years in prison, repeatedly being denied parole because he refused to admit guilt. Upon his release in 1998, he was required to register as a sex offender.
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- There’s one indisputable fact about the events of the night of May 8, 1981: Alice Sebold, who had earlier that day just completed her freshman year at Syracuse University, was brutally raped while walking home through a park. Anthony Broadwater was arrested several months later and subsequently convicted of the assault.
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What We Uncovered About the Sexual Assault of Alice Sebold and a City’s Buried Rape Crisis
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