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...disgrace," said the Brooklyn district attorney. The judge heartily agreed, as he vacated the attempted-rape conviction. Thus last week George Whitmore, 28, was finally released from a Dickensian legal nightmare in which police, courts and prisons had entangled his life for nine long years...
...questioning about another crime, Whitmore, a black laborer, had a picture of a white girl on him that looked to police like Miss Wylie. Within hours, interrogators had extracted a confession not only to the Wylie-Hoffert murders, but also to another stabbing murder and to an attempted rape...
...never tried in the Wylie-Hoffert case, however, because another man was found and convicted of the killings. Accordingly, that charge was dropped, and so was the other murder charge after a trial ended in a hung jury. Nonetheless, the state tenaciously prosecuted him three times for the attempted rape; the third time, his conviction survived appeals. It was that verdict that fell last week after the prosecutor's office learned that the victim had picked out a mug shot of her assailant at a time when no mug shot of Whitmore was in police files...
Psychologically, rape is the most traumatic of crimes against women, and for many victims, the police investigation that follows is even more shattering. Unwilling to tolerate the situation, women in some 20 cities across the country have recently organized rape squads or rape crisis centers. Their aims: to prevent the crime and to ease the emotional hurt of its victims...
...most cases, the anti-rape groups are an outgrowth of the Women's Liberation movement and include many women who have themselves been raped. To get their message to other women, they advertise in the underground press or list themselves in the telephone book with an easy-to-remember number. In Boston, women can dial 492-RAPE any time during the day or night to get help. In Washington, D.C. (dial 333-RAPE), lines are open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. Most of the rape squads follow similar procedures. At the Washington center, the volunteers first determine...