Central park jogger biography for kids

Trisha Meili kept her identity secret for fourteen years until a year after the five boys infamously known as the "Central Park 5" were exonerated of raping her.

Meili was a 28-year-old investment banker when she went for a jog in Central Park on April 19, 1989.

She was attacked by a serial rapist, Matias Reyes, but that wouldn’t be proven until years later.

Meili was wearing headphones when she was attacked, according to "The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One Of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes,” a book written in 2011 by Sarah Burns.

So, she likely couldn’t hear her attacker approaching her and hitting her in the back of the head with a tree branch causing her to fall forward.

"Bleeding from the head, she was then dragged off the road to the north, through a grassy area, and then into the woods that began forty feet from the road,” the book states.

She was raped and badly beaten with a rock.

Then, she was tied up with her own shirt and lef Central Park Jogger Case: How Did 5 Innocent Teenagers Get ... TYTO