Jogger Says She’ll Help Prosecute Accused Attackers
The woman jogger beaten, raped and left for dead in Central Park has offered to help prosecutors build their case against six teen-agers accused in the attack last spring, hospital records revealed Wednesday.
Six weeks after emerging from a coma, the investment banker told a psychiatrist she was still fearful about the attack but would cooperate with authorities “if it will help with the prosecution.”
“I don’t know what happened and maybe I will never know,” the woman told Dr. Mary Ann Cohen on June 2 at Metropolitan Hospital. “But I know I was attacked and I will just have to accept it and deal with it.”
No decision has been made about whether the victim will testify.
The 28-year-old Wall Street executive and Yale business school graduate made the comment two days after she began to discuss the incident with her family and psychiatrist as part of her therapy.
The woman expressed concern and anxiety about the attack and asked that her rehabilitation take place “outside of New York City.” She was transferred to Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Conn.
The hospital records were expected to be used at the trial, which will likely begin next winter.
Six youths were indicted on rape, attempted murder and other charges stemming from attacks on joggers during a two-hour “wilding” spree April 19.
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