The Nation - News from Sept. 22, 1988

New York state prosecutors helping to prepare a preliminary grand jury report on the Tawana Brawley case have come up with no evidence to support the black teen-ager’s allegations of abduction and sexual assault by six white men, Newsday reported. “It appears that there is nothing to support any of her story,” said one investigative source. Frustrated by the refusal of Brawley to cooperate with the investigation, the prosecutors even called in two psychiatrists to develop a character profile of Brawley and to help them determine the validity of her story, Newsday said. Like the prosecutors, the psychiatrists have not been able to interview Brawley. But sources familiar with the inquiry say the psychiatrists have examined physical evidence and in grand jury testimony raised the possibility that the bizarre condition in which she was discovered in November could have been self-inflicted, the paper said.