Tawana Glenda Brawley (born 1972) is an African-American woman from Wappingers Falls, New York, who gained notoriety in 1987–88 for falsely accusing six white men of having raped her.
The charges received widespread national attention because of her age
(15), the persons accused (including police officers and a prosecuting
attorney), and the shocking state in which Brawley was found after the
alleged rape (in a trash bag, with racial slurs written on her body and
covered in feces). Brawley's accusations were given widespread media
attention in part from the involvement of her advisers, including the
Reverend Al Sharpton and attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason.[1]
After hearing evidence, a grand jury concluded in October 1988 that
Brawley had not been the victim of a forcible sexual assault and that
she herself may have created the appearance of such an attack.[2]
The New York prosecutor whom Brawley had accused as one of her alleged
assailants successfully sued Brawley and her three advisers for
defamation.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations
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