One of 'Central Park Five' attends LI event
Photo credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile | Yusef Salaam, one of the five men arrested and later convicted of the rape of the Central Park jogger who later had their convictions vacated, talks about his experience as he holds up an old newspaper clipping at the Lakeview library in Rockville Centre. (Feb. 16, 2013)
Yusef Salaam may be a professional family man, but he still bears the trauma of a lost youth spent in prison as one of five Harlem teens wrongfully convicted in the notorious 1989 rape of a female jogger in Central Park.
More than a decade after the confession of a convicted serial rapist cleared the five, Salaam told a group on Long Island Saturday that he is haunted by old news images of...
