Five men wrongfully convicted in 1989 for the rape and attempted murder of a woman in Central Park will get the city of New York compensation of $ 40 million, according to the New York Times.

If the agreement is approved by the courts and authorities of the city, “the five Central Park” should be about one million dollars for each year spent in prison unjustly, reported the New York Times without disclosing its sources. Judicial authorities of the city did not want to comment on this information.







The case sparked a media outcry in a city ossified by racial and social tensions and pervasive crime fueled by trafficking crack and heroin.

April 19, 1989 evening, Trisha Meili, a young employee of the finance was removed on a path of Central Park where she was jogging, dragged into a ravine where she was raped, beaten and left for dead. A few hours later, the New York police arrested five suspects, black and Hispanic, aged 14 to 16 years. Despite numerous inconsistencies in the investigation, DNA analysis inconclusive and procedural errors, they were convicted all five.

Adolescents spent six to 13 years in prison before a serial rapist admits to being the perpetrator of Trisha Meili. They were cleared in 2002.