Rough justice: New York’s teen ‘rapists’

When a young white woman was raped and left for dead in the heart of Manhattan in 1989, five Harlem teenagers were sent to jail. But all were innocent – a fact not all New Yorkers are aware of a decade after their eventual acquittal, according to the makers of a harrowing new film about the Central Park jogger case




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