The force of the blow to her face was so strong that her skull was fractured in 21 places and her eyeball had exploded inside her head.
New York City Police quickly rounded up five Black teenage boys they found messing around in the park that night — and coerced them into confessing.
The case instantly gripped the attention of the entire nation. While activists decried the lack of evidence and racial profiling at work, others pushed for swift and merciless justice for the teenagers, including a real estate magnate named Donald Trump, who took out a full-page ad in the Daily News calling for the death penalty.
By 1991, all five boys were convicted and received sentences of up to 15 years. But 12 years later, a New York prison inmate named Matias Reyes confessed that he had been the real culprit behind the Central Park Jogger case all along.
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