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...crime is gnawing at the soul of the city that thinks of itself as the embodiment of American energy and creativity. The random nature of such crime spares no one. As the case against three of the alleged participants in the brutal rape and assault of a young female jogger in Central Park last year drew to a close, a 33-year-old advertising executive was shot to death while returning a phone call on a quiet Greenwich Village street...
Deni Elliott, director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, contends that "ultimately we're doing women a disservice by separating rape from other violent crimes." A celebrated case in point is that of the Central Park jogger, three of whose alleged assaulters go on trial this month. Because she was raped, newspapers and TV stations have generally refrained from using her name. "If she had merely been beaten and left for dead," Elliott notes, "she would have been named." One journal that did name the jogger was the black-oriented Amsterdam News. Editor in chief Wilbert Tatum argues that the city...
Every few weeks, with a different twist, the tale is played out again. Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park. The story was horrible enough on its own. But it was made more poignant by the larger-than-life goodness of the heroine. "All anyone could remember about her," reported the New York Daily News, was her "grace, cheer and success." She was young, white, brilliant, a rapidly rising banker. And despite being overwhelmed by a "wolf pack," she put up a "terrific fight...
...hard to believe, and harder still to comprehend, but it is true. Some atrocious crimes in America are being committed by those who should be the most innocent -- the young. Recent weeks have brought news of two particularly brutal acts: the gang rape and near murder of a jogger in Manhattan's Central Park by a group of youths 14 to 16, and the alleged sexual assault on a mentally impaired girl by high school students in affluent Glen Ridge, N.J. These crimes have awakened the country to the beast that has broken loose in some of America's young...
...news of the assault comes less than two months after the entire nation was shocked by the gang rape and near fatal beating of a white jogger in New York City's Central Park, allegedly by six black and Hispanic youths. Taken together, the two cases brutally demonstrate that sexual violence by adolescents transcends racial and class lines. Such attacks are now increasingly common across the U.S. According to the FBI, the number of arrests for rape committed by boys 18 years old or younger rose by 14.6% between...