![]() ![]() The teens - Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Antron McCray - eventually became known as the "Central Park Five." 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. "I had several skull fractures and there were deep lacerations," said Meili. ![]() (MORE: This mom’s realistic New Year’s resolution is to simply 'survive' and we're like, 'um, same') ![]() They treated me with such dignity and respect." I support the work of law enforcement and prosecutors. "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 so wish the case hadn't been settled," Meili told ABC News' "20/20" in January. Watch the full story on "20/20" Friday, May 24, at 9 p.m. And the police and prosecutors involved in the case agree. We have an obligation to do something fair for them, for the whole city to turn the page and move forward."īut the settlement remains a decision that Trisha Meili - the jogger in that horrific attack - says the city should not have made. "They spent a lot of their lives in jail, in prison, wrongly," de Blasio said at a news conference at that time. 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. ![]()
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