Recycling a rape allegation (20 yrs later)

Report: Family wants Tawana Brawley case reopened

Excerpt:

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York 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.

"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.

Wikipedia: Tawana Brawley rape allegations

Comment: I remember well the race-charged tensions 20 years ago. After months of media attention, and a thorough grand jury, the allegations were never substantiated. The Wikipedia article has links to extensive documentation discrediting Tawana Brawley's claim that she'd been raped by white law enforcement officers. Yet 20 years later, her parents (why not her? She is a 35 year old adult!) want to have the issue rehashed. Waste of time! Someone wants either money, media attention, or both!