The Nation - News from April 25, 1989

A 28-year-old female jogger beaten and raped by a pack of teen-agers in New York’s Central Park has apparently won her struggle for survival but it is unclear whether she has suffered severe brain damage, doctors said. Meanwhile, a grand jury was impaneled in state Supreme Court in Manhattan to hear the case in which eight teens are charged. “The chance of her body surviving is good,” said Dr. Kent Duffy, chief of neurosurgery at Metropolitan Hospital, where the investment banker is on life support systems. Doctors are now focusing on the lack of oxygen to her brain in the more than three hours before her comatose body was found after the attack Wednesday.