'Lucky' author Alice Sebold apologizes to man wrongly convicted of her rape - New York Post

“First, I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through,” Sebold wrote Tuesday of the 61-year-old man exonerated in a Syracuse court on Monday last week.

“I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will,” she wrote on Medium, saying she “will remain sorry for the rest of my life.”.

Broadwater has finally been vindicated, but the fact remains that 40 years ago, he became another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system,” she wrote.

“And so, I state here clearly that I will remain sorry for the rest of my life that while pursuing justice through the legal system, my own misfortune resulted in Mr

Broadwater — who was convicted mostly due to the author IDing him — said he was “relieved that she has apologized.”

Before his exoneration, Broadwater — who finished his prison term in 1999 — had remained on New York’s sex offender registry and said the injustice stopped him from ever wanting kids