The Nation - News from April 18, 1988

The parents and grandparents of a teen-age girl strangled by a prep school graduate in New York’s Central Park lit candles in her memory at a vigil for crime victims, two days after her killer was sentenced. The slain teen-ager’s sister arrived at the Manhattan church vigil holding her 2-month-old daughter, who was named after the aunt she will never know. The family revealed also that the prosecutor in the sensational case became the child’s godmother Friday, the same day Robert Chambers, 21, began serving a 5- to 15-year prison sentence for strangling Jennifer Levin, 18. More than 500 relatives of crime victims attended the ceremony at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew. Chambers was set to be moved today from Rikers Island to the maximum-security Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill.