CENTRAL PARK JOGGER RAPE CASE INJUSTICE

Talk about a double injustice. The victim in the case nearly died from the injuries inflicted by the perpetrater and then years afterwards finds out that the five men convicted in the case in which her memory was lost due to the head trauma; finds out that the guilty man was never convicted for his crimes. A total of five black and Hispanic teenagers were found guilty in the case and served years in jail. All their convictions were thrown out in 2002 due to evidence that another individual, acting alone , was responsible. Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys the story titled "Payout can't buy back lost time, exonerated men say". It can't buy back lost time nor does it remotely exonerate the justice system that found it so expedient to convict five innocent teenagers so readily. In hindsight I'm beginning to believe that there are individuals within the justice system who are far more concerned with speedy convictions in high profile cases than in getting the responsible person. In other words any likely candidate will do just so the police and Crown can pretend that they did their jobs properly and promptly. Shame on them.