The New Bedford Rape Trial

One evening in March 1983, after giving her three-year-old daughter a birthday party, a New Bedford, Massachusetts woman left her two children with their father and walked to a neighborhood bar to buy cigarettes. According to her story, she bought the cigarettes, had a drink, and was chatting with another woman, when a group of men threw her on a pool table and collaborated in raping her. Others in the bar observed what happened, and allegedly encouraged the rapists in their sexual assault. ...