The Nation - News from April 30, 1989

Tawana Brawley, the black New York teen-ager who last year claimed that she had been raped by a group of white men, denied Daryl Rodriguez’s allegations that she told him that her story was untrue, Newsday reported. Brawley said at a news conference before a United Africa Movement rally in Brooklyn that her mother’s live-in boyfriend, Ralph King, “has never beaten me.” In the account in Thursday’s Newsday, Rodriguez said Brawley had told him that she had run away after being beaten by King and that she and her mother made up the rape story so that King would accept her home again.