hang on was the actual rapist a white man?

This the s*** that be saddening me the most man.

And a no comment?

Nah the real life rapist was a black dude, but she adapted the events for her novel "Lucky," which is (or was) being made into a movie.

The producer argued that because it was a fictional movie anyway they didn't need to worry about the race of the rapist (and in the novel she renamed him to Gregory Mitchell or some s*** which is already a hella white sounding name) but other execs involved were just like nah it's gotta be a black dude

That’s f***ed up, the man should definitely get as much money as he can from a suit.

But the way I’m reading it, I don’t know how responsible sebold actually is. She was actually raped by someone, she just picked the wrong guy out of a lineup. I don’t know what crime that is. The police, lawyers, judge, etc. are probably equally or even more responsible for the wrongful conviction.

It’s just not the same as someone intentionally making up a rape story to target and wrongfully convict someone else, and that’s how a lot of people seem to be responding to it.

I don’t think the woman’s money has anything to do with broadwater either, I think that’s just extra sensationalism for the headline

Homeboy gotta sue the state. Reading it, it definitely sounds like they failed him more than anything else. They used an outdated practice that aint even used anymore in rape cases anymore.

But I think they bringing up her money because it was her admittance that f***ed his life up, and if she knows now that he had nothing to do with her rape...at the very least help homie y'know?

I would agree with this but it’s a complete contradiction considering she became a millionaire from speaking about this exact incident.

If she was able to speak about it to make money, she should be able to speak about it to call out a corrupt system (assuming she herself isn’t corrupt as well).

She still got raped you weirdo

Yeah I agree, ppl itt acting like it was intentionally nefarious on her part. That said, and I appreciate it was prob very traumatic for her, you have to say there is a degree of culpability there in terms of being steered by the police in the lineup and identification.

That said, pigs are scum and are a lot more 'persuasive' than you think too

forreal, buy the man a house. I hope he still gets the chance to raise kids if he wants to

but I get how it might be hard for sebold to live this long associating this guy with serious trauma and then turning around and taking care of the guy. If she just ignores it forever that’s pretty s***ty, but I get that it would take time to adjust mentally.

"Sebold identified a different man as her rapist in a police lineup in 1981, but she was steered to Broadwater by the police department and prosecutors. They also used a form of hair a***ysis to convict Broadwater that would not have been relied on in today's courts."

We really gonna be putting all the blame on a woman who did get raped after all and none on these scum bag police ?

That’s what I’m saying.

The state gotta be sued for this s***. Whoever wrote that article knew what they was doing lol

Bad faith arguments bruh

that book is cancelled

but the movie though

Remember that majority of white people don’t think that amerikkka is racist.

Why can’t she be arrested for this? This is unbelievable.

Both deserve equal blame. She went along with it, and made millions off of it. Let’s not act like she’s innocent in this.

If she wanted justice she should’ve insisted on catching the right guy and not just putting and innocent man behind bars.

I don't think we know enough about the case tho to say she definitely knew it was the wrong person tho

Police got the power and pressure to get people to admit to s*** they haven't even done so it's easy to imagine there's a lot of cases like this where they push thr victim to remember s*** a certain way

Either way tho I only said police deserve part of the blame as OP makes it seem like this woman personally accused this guy wrongfully of a rape that didn't happen. that's the impression I got anyway til I read about it. The way the OP reads its as tho no rape happened

If this lady intentionally put the blame on someone innocent then ofc she's scum and deserves hell but doesn't seem that clear.

So she was actually raped but accused this man simply because he reminded her of her rapist without actual proof that it was him? That’s f***ed up

Edit: she didn’t personally accuse him, it was the feds

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/24/us/anthony-broadwater-alice-sebold-rape-exoneration/index.html

So this man spent a life of suffering because she didn’t want to address the fact it wasn’t him?

Yea i looked more into it myself cause the way OP (irresponsibly) made the thread seemed iffy.

He still deserves his justice 100 times over

Ya I'm not trying to say she doesn't have any responsibility

Just the fact there was a rape and that the police seem to be the main factor in this wrongful conviction made me feel a lil mislead

If there's more details like she talks specifically that it was this guy in her book then yea he deserves millions from her

Why would she lie about being rape? That’s so f***ed up