Lovely bones Author Alice Sebold said in her statement, “I will continue to struggle with the role I unwittingly played in a system that has sent an innocent man to prison.”
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Lovely bones Author Alice Sebold said in her statement, “I will continue to struggle with the role I unwittingly played in a system that has sent an innocent man to prison.”
TINA FINEBERG / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Almost four decades after misidentifying the man as the man who raped her in college, author Alice Sebold has apologized and her publishers said they would stop publishing her 1999 memoir. she wrote about it.
Anthony Broadwater, who spent over 16 years in prison for this crime and who has not stopped maintaining his chastity, was exonerated last week.
“First, I want to say that I’m really sorry Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you’ve been through,” Sebold began a statement posted Tuesday on Medium.
“I’m sorry above all that the life you could have led was unjustly taken, and I know that no apology can ever change what happened to you and will not. most of all, you and your family will be given the time and privacy to heal.”
In 1981, Sebold was a freshman at Syracuse University when she was raped and beaten. Five months later, she discovered the nearby Broadwater School and called the police. She identified him in court during his trial in 1982.
According to Syracuse.com, which first reported on Broadwater’s pardon, “The only two pieces of evidence against Broadwater were Sebold’s identity at trial – after selecting the wrong person from the previous police team – and analysis. hair microscopy, now considered a science fiction. . . ”
Sebold, who will write the extremely popular book Lovely bones, wrote about her experience in her memoir, Lucky. Already have a plan to turn Lucky into a movie, but according to a report from Diversity, sponsor it dried up last month.
On Tuesday, Scribner and Simon & Schuster said they would “discontinue distribution in all formats of Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir. Lucky while Sebold and Scribner jointly looked at how the work might be modified. “
In his apology, Sebold admitted the role race led to Broadwater’s wrongful conviction.
“Today, American society is beginning to acknowledge and address systemic problems in our justice system, which often means that justice for some comes at the expense of others. others. I reported my rape in 1981.”
Broadwater told Syracuse.com that his beliefs limited his employment prospects to manual labor and odd jobs. Sebold wrote in his statement that Broadwater not only had to serve 16 years behind bars, but called the lingering consequences of it “almost a life sentence.”
