Raymond Santana, Central Park Five, Guest Speaker at Monmouth University on September 12

Monmouth University will host guest speaker, Raymond Santana of the Central Park Five, on September 12.  The event is free and open to the Monmouth University community as well as the general public and will be held in Bey Hall, room 113, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.  This event is part of an ongoing relationship between Monmouth University and the Innocence Project.

The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

“Raymond Santana is one of five teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 when they were arrested and questioned in the brutal attack of a female jogger in New York’s Central Park in April, 1989.  The confessions were presented as evidence though they differed in the time, location, and participants of the rape.  The young men were wrongfully convicted of rape and waited more than a decade before DNA evidence exonerated them and implicated the real perpetrator-a convicted murderer and rapist.”  This background information was provided by the Innocence Project.  More information on Raymond Santana is available on the following internet site:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Raymond_Santana.php

The event is sponsored by the Honors School and the History and Anthropology Department.

For more information, contact Professor Susan Douglass at 732-263-5509 or sdouglas@monmouth.edu.