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Top NYPD Official Offers Rape Victim an Apology

By MARK TOOR
Posted 1/22/18

More than 23 years later, one of the NYPD’s most-visible Deputy Commissioners apologized to the victim of a 1994 rape for feeding reporters information that cast doubt on her story.

The woman, who was dragged off a footpath and raped in Prospect Park, was called a liar by the late Daily News columnist Mike Mc­Alary. Under the headline “Rape Hoax the Real Crime,” he quoted unnamed police sources who theorized that she had made up the story to publicize a gay-rights gathering.

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