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Portrait of rampage
& rape without guilt
No bail
for 8 in
attack
The confessions of a
teenage wolf pack, to
be presented to a
grand jury that con-
venes today, frame a
chilling portrait of
rampage and rape vir-
tually without re-
morse.
Only one of the eight
teens charged in the rape and
attempted murder of a Cen-
tral Park jogger expressed
any misgivings about the at-
tack in his videotaped state-
ment to investigators, police
sources said.
"It got to me when her
blood started to spurt," the
boy said.
Another suspect said the
28-year-old victim was "still
moaning and squirming in
the mud" when her attackers
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SERANT, NATALIE BYFIELD,
LARRY CELONA, HeD
EVANS, PATRICK CLARR and
MARK KnEan contri-
buted to this story, which
was written by KeseL.
Leaders respond
Flowers sent
left the scene, although most
of the youths thought she was
dead, the sources said.
The eight youths were or-
dered held without bail early
yesterday by Criminal Court
Judge Charles Solomon after
a prosecutor provided con-
densed versions of their hor-
rifying statements.
Another boy, Jermaine
Robinson, 15, charged with
assaulting a man during the
gang's crime spree but not
implieated in the rape, was
held on $15,000 bail.
The grand jury is to be em-
paneled today. Witnesses will
include teenagers who saw
the suspects enter Central
Park that night and friends to
whom three of the accused duction of television and movie violence. Horrified at attit
youths bragged about their
crimes, police sources said.
The panel also will hear locked behind the most secure doors in
that traces of blood and se- Manhattan," Cuomo said.
men were found on five of the
suspects' clothes, the sources family the use of Gracie Mansion by day
said. Blood and semen will be
taken for comparison from all
the suspects, said Gerald the press and the right to sentence juve- accused of assaulting the woman.
McKelvey, a spokesman for niles as adults in certain cases.
Manhattan District Attorney
The familles of four of the teen-
agers charged in the Central Park
rape have sent flowers to the victim
and expressed their "deepest aympa-
thies" to her family, a spolcesman
said yesterday.
The families of the four suspects
who live at Schomburg Plaza on FIh
Ave, sent the flowers, said William
Perkins, who heads the Schomburg
tenants' association.
"The tragedy is one in which we all
feel pain," Perians said.
"They believe their childnen are
Innocent, but will leave such judg-
ments to the courts and God"
Yusef Salasm, 15; Kevin Richard-
son, 14; Kharey Wise, 16, and Steve
Lopez, 15, are the suspeets from
Schomburg, on Centrel Park's morth-
ern border.
The sister of suspeet Michael Bris-
coe, 17, of Madison Ave., said she saw
her brother about the time police
said the woman was attacked
Wednesday.
"I eame home at about 10:20 and
my brother wan home, so I don't
know how he could heve done this."
Shabe Briscoe said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who held a
news conference at 112th St and
Fifth Ave., said he prayed yesterday
with Briscoe's mother.
Gov, Ed, O'C speak out
By MIKE SANTANGELO
and INGRID DEVITA
O'Connor paid a bedside visit to the
victim and her family, giving her his
blessing and saying a prayer for her. He
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Gov. Cuomo vowed a "stepped-up ef- also counseled the woman's parents, de-
fort" against violent crime, Mayor Koch vout Catholics.
offered his home to the family of the
Central Park rape victim and Cardinal rick's Cathedral to pray for the vietim
O'Connor offered his prayers for her re-
covery yesterday.
"We have to stand up and make a
whole new effort against violent erime,"
said a visibly angry Cuomo.
He said he is preparing a speech for
later this week that will call for tougher
criminal laws, more education and a re-
Earlier, he asked worshipers at St. Pat-
"and the families of all those involved."
In a voice cracking with emotion at the
10:15 a.m. Mass, O'Connor said:
"It is difficult to speak of love when
you reflect on the beating of the anony-
mous woman."
"This is the ultimate siren of alarm
He asked the congregation "to pause
that says none of us is safe, not even for just a moment and pray for the wom-
an who was so brutally battered in the
park and pray for the families of all
Mayor Koch, who offered the victim's those who were involved."
or night, called for the death penalty, the
opening of Family Court proceedings to
He said he was especially horrified by
accounts of the attitudes of the teenagers
They said, "She didn't mean any-
"It's such an outrage that it makes ev- thing: they said. 'We were having fun.
ery decent New Yorker ask what we
What a profound indifference," O'Con-
nor said.
Keith Moore
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