In her apology, she blamed “systemic issues in our judicial system.” Sebold identified Broadwater as her rapist at his trial, despite having earlier picked out another man who was with him in a lineup. “And certainly not to forever, and irreparably, alter a young man’s life by the very crime that had altered mine,” she wrote. Anthony Broadwater (center) appears after a judge overturned his conviction on Nov.
“My goal in 1982 was justice - not to perpetuate injustice,” Sebold insisted in her Medium post. Sebold described herself as a “traumatized 18-year-old rape victim” who “chose to put my faith in the American legal system.” Medium / will also grapple with the fact that my rapist will, in all likelihood, never be known, may have gone on to rape other women, and certainly will never serve the time in prison that Mr. After eight days of silence, Sebold finally shared a statement on Tuesday. “I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail,” she wrote. The novelist, now 58, said she was only now speaking out because “it has taken me these past eight days to comprehend how this could have happened.” “I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will,” she wrote on Medium, saying she “will remain sorry for the rest of my life.” “First, I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through,” Sebold wrote Tuesday of the 61-year-old man exonerated in a Syracuse court on Monday last week.
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