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...reckoning approaches for William Kennedy Smith. The 30-year-old med-school student, a nephew of Senator Ted Kennedy, surrendered to police in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday, to face charges that he raped a 29-year-old woman on the family estate over Easter weekend. In a nine-page affidavit that described the alleged crime in clinical detail, Palm Beach County state attorney David Bludworth filed one charge of sexual battery, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 4 1/2 years in prison, and a misdemeanor charge of battery...
Court documents also indicate that Senator Kennedy may have whisked his nephew out of town on Easter Sunday to shield him from a police interrogation about the incident and that the Senator himself ignored requests to speak with investigators. The Kennedy camp last week indignantly denied suggestions of impropriety. But police chief J.L. Terlizzese said his men were "definitely misled" and that the department was looking into why residents in the Kennedy home had not made themselves available to detectives...
...wouldn't comment about Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D--Mass.), who blamed "miscommunication" and "semantic misunderstanding" for his failure to talk to police before he left Palm Beach the Monday of Easter weekend, two days after alleged rape occurred...
...Palm Beach the identity of the woman who accused Ted Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith, of rape has been no secret since shortly after the alleged Easter-weekend assault. Her name and address have been so widely circulated that dozens of journalists have been staking out her home in nearby Jupiter for weeks. On April 7, her name appeared in London's Sunday Mirror. Yet the police and U.S. news organizations, following a long tradition of protecting the anonymity of rape victims, had declined to disclose it. Then last week the Globe broke the taboo...
Editors also anguished over the propriety of naming the suspect, William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), with-out identifying the accuser. Police identified Smith as the suspect several days after the Easter weekend incident. He has not been charged, but an investigation continues...