The Nation - News from April 27, 1989

A grand jury returned the first two indictments in the Central Park attack on a 28-year-old woman jogger, who remained in a coma for a seventh day, officials said. Details of the sealed indictments, including the exact charges, were not released. The two teen-agers had been arrested on charges of first-degree rape, second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. The grand jury reviewed confessions from some of the eight youths arrested in the rape and assault of the Wall Street investment banker, the source said. One of those indicted confessed to police that he hit the young woman with a pipe, court papers show. After she fell, he told police, he struck her again and another youth stripped off her shirt, the documents said. The other indicted teen-ager admitted fondling the woman’s breasts, court documents say.