St. Louis CofCC Blog

She’s back.  Or maybe “she’s” not — her family is.

AP:

Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flashpoint, Tawana Brawley’s mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press 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.

Why now?  I think that paragraph has the reason.  Since New York has a crazy left-wing pandering Governor (to wit:  drivers licenses for illegals), and probably just as wacky of an AG, the family thinks it has friends in high places.

“New York State owes my daughter. They owe her the truth,” said Glenda Brawley. She reiterated her stance that her daughter was indeed raped by a group of white men who smeared her with feces and scrawled racial epithets on her body.

She got the truth in November 1987.

Brawley was 15 when she went missing for four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, about 75 miles north of New York City. After being found, she made the shocking allegation that she had been abducted and raped by six white law enforcement officials.

The case quickly made headlines and drew the attention of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who became an outspoken advocate for the teen.

But a special state grand jury found evidence Brawley had fabricated her story. A former Dutchess County prosecutor who had been implicated in the case later sued Brawley, Sharpton and other Brawley advisers for defamation, winning a $345,000 judgment against the advisers and a $185,000 judgment against Brawley.

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Brawley has changed her name and become a nurse, the Daily News reported.

If so, why doesn’t she come into the public eye with her new name?  Could it be that she wouldn’t have been able to get into nursing school or be hired as a nurse with her notorious birth name, and that if she did come out, she would be fired from the nurse’s job she has now?  Or could it be that there’s a $185,000 rock on her real identity, and she changed names to evade the debt?