The Nation - News from June 10, 1988

The Upstate New York home of a woman refusing to cooperate with a rape investigation involving her daughter was burglarized while she remained holed up in a church in New York City, but her family told police not to investigate the crime. Glenda Brawley spent her second day in the Queens church, defying an arrest warrant issued after she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating the rape allegations of her daughter Tawana, 16. The teen-ager, who is black, claimed she was abducted and raped by six white men, including one with a police-like badge, but has refused to cooperate with investigators. Glenda Brawley’s sister, Juanita, reported that the family apartment was broken into and “ransacked” by burglars who broke a pane of glass in a rear door and stole $700 in cash, Wappingers Falls police said.