Youths Charged in Attack on 3rd Central Park Jogger
Eight teen-agers accused in a rampage through Central Park that resulted in the rape and beating of a woman jogger and an attack on a male runner are also charged with assaulting a third jogger, indictments unsealed Friday revealed.
Six of the teen-agers were indicted for beating and raping a 28-year-old female jogger and leaving her for dead. All eight were indicted for assaulting and robbing a male jogger, John Loughlin, 40, during the rampage April 19.
The indictments unsealed by Manhattan Dist. Atty. Robert M. Morgenthau revealed the eight are also charged with attacking a second male jogger, David Lewis, 30.
Both men were attacked on the running track that circles the park reservoir.
The rape victim, who has regained consciousness after a two-week coma, remained in critical condition at Metropolitan Hospital.
“She is resting comfortably and shows some further neurological progress,” said Dr. Robert S. Kurtz, director of the hospital’s surgical intensive care unit.
Kurtz said doctors did not know why the woman’s fever shot up to 106 degrees early Thursday. Her temperature was back down to normal, he said.
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