Alice Sebold sorry Anthony Broadwater after he was falsely convicted of raping her in 1981.
NS Lovely bones the author, who wrote about her sexual assault in the book Lucky, issued a public statement to Medium on Tuesday, November 30, a week after a New York State Supreme Court Justice acquitted the 61-year-old.
Broadwater served 16 years in prison and was released in 1998. After his release, he was placed on the New York sex offender registry.
“First, I’d like to say I’m really sorry Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you’ve been through,” she wrote. “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 never will. changeable now.”
Sebold said that when she was raped at the age of 18, she merely wanted justice, “not to continue causing injustice,” adding, “And certainly not permanent, and irreparable.” , changed a young man’s life by my changed crime.”
