25 years after her rape claims sparked a firestorm, Tawana Brawley avoids the spotlight
- Last Updated: 12:54 PM, December 23, 2012
- Posted: 1:26 AM, December 23, 2012
EXCLUSIVE
"Her silence is deafening.
Twenty-five years after the spotlight first glared on Tawana Brawley — a black woman who as a teen claimed she was raped by a gang of white men, smeared with feces and stuffed in a garbage bag — she’s desperately struggling to stay hidden from public view.
“'I don’t want to talk to anyone about that,' Brawley, 40, said recently after The Post found her in Hopewell, Va., where she lives in a neatly kept brick apartment complex with signs warning of video surveillance cameras."
"By all appearances, her life — so chaotic a quarter-century ago — now seems normal....
"Brawley, using aliases such as Thompson and Gutierrez, now has a young daughter, a neighbor says, and works as a licensed practical nurse at The Laurels of Bon Air in Richmond, where co-workers were clueless about her past. ...
“'It is probable that in the history of this state, never has a teenager turned the prosecutorial and judicial systems literally upside down with such false claims,' state Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman wrote at the time. ..."
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