Alice Sebold apologizes to tearful Anthony Broadwater for false ‘Lucky’ rape conviction

R&I – TxPAT *** Eight days after Anthony Broadwater was exonerated in the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold, the best-selling author has apologized and called the Syracuse resident an “innocent man.”

Before releasing her apology Tuesday afternoon to the public, Sebold’s representatives sent a copy to Broadwater so he could be the first to read it.

“It comes sincerely from her heart,” Broadwater told Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. “She knowingly admits what happened. I accept her apology.”

Broadwater then burst into tears.

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In her apology, later posted on the website Medium, Sebold wrote that she put her faith as a “traumatized 18-year-old rape victim” in the American legal system. She launched her career in 1999 with the memoir “Lucky,” describing her rape in Syracuse’s Thornden Park and her journey through the criminal justice system that led to his 1982 conviction.

That led to Broadwater’s 16 years in prison for a rape that Sebold now believes he didn’t commit.

“It has taken me these past eight days to comprehend how this could have happened,” Sebold wrote in the statement posted on Medium, an online publishing website. “I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.”

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