Boyz N St. John’s

THE BOYS beat the rap. White Men Acquitted in Sex Abuse Trial of Black Woman … or, What Else Is New? as the Amsterdam News headline put it.

“One of the greatest miscarriages of justice the world has ever seen,” according to the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, advisor to the complainant. . . . A “rerun” out of the Old South, says Congressman Charles Rangel. . . . Mayor Dinkins is “shocked and dismayed.” . . . And it is a verdict that will have a “chilling effect” on the willingness of victims to press charges. The New York Times relays a warning from Professor Peggy Sanday: “It’s open season on women.” There was heightened concern, on Joy Behar’s WABC radio talk show, about rampant testosterone poisoning. “Three canny lawyers,” Carole Agus writes in New York Newsday, “invented a hitherto unheard-of concept: consensual gang rape.”

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THE BOYS beat the rap. White Men Acquitted in Sex Abuse Trial of Black Woman … or, What Else Is New? as the Amsterdam News headline put it.

“One of the greatest miscarriages of justice the world has ever seen,” according to the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, advisor to the complainant. . . . A “rerun” out of the Old South, says Congressman Charles Rangel. . . . Mayor Dinkins is “shocked and dismayed.” . . . And it is a verdict that will have a “chilling effect” on the willingness of victims to press charges. The New York Times relays a warning from Professor Peggy Sanday: “It’s open season on women.” There was heightened concern, on Joy Behar’s WABC radio talk show, about rampant testosterone poisoning. “Three canny lawyers,” Carole Agus writes in New York Newsday, “invented a hitherto unheard-of concept: consensual gang rape.”