An Innocent Black Man Served 16 Years Because of Alice Sebold’s False Rape Accusation

And I can’t stop thinking about it

David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Lovely Bones author, Alice Sebold, is simultaneously a sexual assault victim and complicit in a system of rank racial injustice.

She was violated in the most monstrous way possible when she was only 18 years old. Yet, her erroneous…