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In 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City finally settled with the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers who were convicted and later exonerated in connection with the rape and brutal assault on a jogger.
\"They spent a lot of their lives in jail, in prison, wrongly,\" de Blasio said at a news conference at that time. \"We have an obligation to turn the page. We have an obligation to do something fair for them, for the whole city to turn the page and move forward.\"
\"I so wish the case hadn't been settled,\" Meili told ABC News' \"20/20\" in January. \"I wish that it had gone to court because there's a lot of information that's now being released that I'm seeing for the first time. I support the work of law enforcement and prosecutors. ... They treated me with such dignity and respect.\"
On the night of April 19, 1989, she worked until 8 p.m. and then headed to her home on the East Side. Moments after she had returned home, she was back outside, running toward Central Park. It was a routine she followed probably four to five days a week, she said.
\"It was a release to be out there in nature, to see the beauty of the park ... as well as the skyscrapers and the lights of New York City, and the sense that, 'Wow, this is my city. I'm here in my park,'\" she said. \"I loved the freedom of the park. ... It just gave me a sense of vitality.\"
\"People were punched in the face and pulled off their bicycles and robbed of their watches. I mean, it was kind of a crazy series of incidents that took place in the park,\" recalled former newspaper columnist Ken Auletta.
\"I would run to the park, usually entering at the 84th Street entrance just by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,\" she recalled. \"I would go to the 102nd Street cross drive that would go from the East Drive of the park over the West Drive of the park.\"
While Meili was in the hospital, with doctors unsure if she would live or die, New York authorities were charging five teenagers who had been held in connection with the Central Park assaults with her attack. The teens -- Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Antron McCray -- eventually became known as the \"Central Park Five.\"
\"Kevin Richardson had a scratch under his eye, so the detectives asked him, 'How did you get the scratch under your eye?'\" said former New York City detective Eric Reynolds. Richardson replied on the videotaped interrogation:
\"You had children, schoolchildren showing up and holding vigils outside,\" said former reporter and professor Natalie Byfield. \"Cardinal (John) O'Connor made a visit there. Frank Sinatra sent her flowers.\"
When the first trial began in August 1990 against Salaam, Santana and McCray, Meili agreed to testify. On the witness stand, she talked about what her normal running practices had been and what she had been wearing that night.
After 10 days of deliberations, Salaam, Santana and McCray, all 16 years old at the time, were convicted of rape, assault and robbery in the attack on Meili. After a separate trial, in December 1990, Wise was found guilty of sexual abuse, first degree assault and riot. Richardson was also found guilty on all charges.
He had met Wise earlier when they were both at New York's Rikers Island jail, and then later had seen him at a prison upstate. Reyes, who has doing 33 years to life for a murder-rape conviction, reached out to police, who were able to match his DNA to the DNA at the Central Park crime scene.
Reyes also knew some details about Meili and the crime that had never been released and that only the person who had been there could know. Reyes, who had been given the nickname \"East Side Rapist\" for a series of violent rapes along Madison Avenue in the spring and summer of 1989, had also attacked a woman in the park a few days prior to -- and not far from -- the April 19 attack on Meili.
\"I always knew that there was at least one more person involved because there was unidentified DNA,\" Meili said. \"So when I heard the news that there was an additional person found whose DNA matched, that wasn't a tremendous surprise. But when he said that he and he alone had done it, that's when some of the turmoil started, wondering 'Well, how can that be?'\"
Meili and doctors Kurtz and Haher said there was medical evidence to support the charge that more than one person was responsible for her attack. Her injuries were different from what Reyes claimed as the sole attacker, Meili said.
In 2002, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau withdrew all charges against the Central Park Five, and their convictions were vacated. Wise, who was still in prison at the time, was released early. The group sued in 2003 and after a decade-long standstill, the lawsuit was settled for $41 million. The city, however, did not admit to any misconduct by its police department or prosecutors.
It is a quiet Saturday morning in the Bandra district of Mumbai, India -- 5:15, to be exact -- one of the few cool and serene hours of the day in a city known for its blistering heat and raucous traffic congestion.
On this morning, I escape to one of the few open running spaces in the city, the Jogger's Park, just a five-minute walk from my Bandra apartment. Though I've never been a morning runner, I have no choice but to become one here in Mumbai, as the cool morning air provides the day's only relief.
While I am usually a modestly dressed athlete, on my first visit to the park I take extra precautions with my workout outfit to be sure not to offend the locals. I wear a pair of black, fitted, calf-length leggings underneath my black running shorts. I decide to wear two sports bras, and throw on my bright green short-sleeve shirt. I lace up my sneakers, clip on my pink iPod shuffle, strap on my lime green Timex sports watch, tuck my keys into my pocket and head out the door.
The path to the park has its fair share of obstacles, even this early in the day. The stray dogs stir awake as I briskly walk by, and the few rickshaw drivers fight for my attention, hoping that I'll be their day's first customer.
The park, built in 1990, is open for two daily shifts; the first is from 5:30 to 9 a.m., and the other from 3:30 to 9 p.m. Visitors pay the 2-rupee (about 5 cents) entrance fee and make their way through the only opening into the walled complex, one side of which hugs the Arabian Sea.
Beyond the wall lies a green pasture of shrubs circling the track, demarking the three different walking and running spaces. The outer ring is tiled, a middle one is laid with mud and the one farthest in is of cement. The center opening is grassy and populated with yoga enthusiasts. Most of the runners prefer the mud-paved track, while walkers take to the tile or cement. The walkers far outnumber those of us who run.
Already, this early in the morning, the park logs its first of more than 1,500 daily visitors. Women and men mix comfortably in this setting, young and old alike. Some of the older women are dressed in a traditional multicolored salwar kameez, a long, flowing, knee-length shirt with matching pants and scarf, but at this site they wear sneakers with their outfit -- a change from their sandals. Others wear similarly colored saris, perfectly pleated and tucked. A few wear an abaya, fully covering their bodies and revealing only their face, and in some cases, just their eyes. Yet another group, mostly younger women, wear sporty clothes: T-shirts, track pants, high socks and shorts.
I immediately notice Priyanka Pathani, an aspiring actress, who at 25 has been a runner for most of her life. Having grown up as a military child, Priyanka would wake at 4:30 to join her father for his daily morning jogs. "He would kick us out of bed," she said with a laugh.
But her life as a physically active young adult wasn't common for women in her mother's generation. "Now, the gym culture has come in," she said. This shift toward fitness has taken place at a rapid pace beginning 10 years ago, and it's both directly related to -- and directly reflected in -- the Bollywood movies of the decade.
"The whole Bollywood culture has brought on this wave of 'I want to have a hot body, and I can if I go for walks or runs or go to the gym,'" Pathani said. "In India, Bollywood is so prominent everywhere, so what you see in the movies affects people's perceptions of how they want to see themselves."
On this morning I also meet Rashmi, a 58-year-old Mumbai native who has lived in California for the past 30 years. "I was inactive until my late 40s, and my sons encouraged me as a marathon runner and I run 5K's occasionally, too," she told me. The Jogger's Park didn't exist when she was growing up, but now, when she visits her family here in Mumbai, she visits the park on a regular basis.
"I made new friends [here]. We are seeing the same people every day and then get together socially," she said. And do they still come together during the three-month monsoon season of pouring rains? "I bring an umbrella," she said. "The rain doesn't bother us."
The clock strikes 9 a.m. as the guards blow their whistles marking the end of the morning session. Once the park has been cleared, a group of 60 girls from a local high school take over the track and prepare for their gym class, which today involves sprint races. It is hopeful to think that these young girls will now be able to pursue their own athletic dreams, and with the potential to become accomplished athletes for India. All because of a small city park for joggers.
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