Tawana Brawley, the woman who falsely accused various men of holding her captive, raping her, then leaving her in a trash bag with racial slurs scrawled across her body has had her wages garnished in what is due to one of the men she accused. Steven Pagones has been waiting years and years for the payments on the settlement he was given, more than $400,000. You may recall this is the case that helped make Al Sharpton a household name when he came to her defense after she accused all white men of rape.
Sharpton staged sit-ins and rallies in order to see "justice" done in this case. Police could find no evidence to file charges, but of course that didn't stop the race baiting Sharpton from pushing the issue. Once it reached a grand jury they found no evidence to back up her claims. The story goes that she stayed away from home for several days and couldn't find a reasonable excuse that her parents would believe and came up with this story. While it does seem to be the case that her mother's boyfriend was a violent man who reportedly had beat her in the past, it still doesn't justify ruining the lives of innocent men.
Brawley showed no signs of rape or of hypothermia immediately after being found in a trash bag. Brawley had no cuts, no abrasions, or virtually any other injuries at all. It has even been reported that the hospital noted that her teeth had been recently brushed. Hardly indicative of a person being held captive in the woods for days. One neighbor says she saw Brawley crawl into the trash bag on her own accord and last but not least, all the writing found on her was written upside down.
To tell you the truth this isn't even good enough. It is mind numbing to me that she was never prosecuted for bring false charges. In my opinion every woman who brings false claims of rape should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
What Brawley allowed to happen was even bigger than the men who were falsely accused, it brought a city; and a nation for that matter, to a racial divide that was totally unnecessary as well as potentiality dangerous.
This is the first time that Brawley has had to pay in any way for what she had done. It is long since time that paid for her crime and her dishonesty.
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