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Rape victim met her attacker twice in court
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February 20, 2021 12.55pm
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She saw something moving on her fire escape. In the next instant, a man smashed through her window and raped her at knifepoint. A neighbour heard her screams and called the police, who caught the assailant near her apartment in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan. At his trial in 1974, the jury deliberated for eight days without reaching a verdict, and he was let go.
More than three decades later, in 2005, the man was retried; the woman testified again, and this time he was found guilty and sent to jail.