“Each and every day… in each and every newspaper, I had to see the face of the man who raped me,” Bowman said. “That’s hard. Then I had to see the face of the man who raped me change into a man with a puppy, a man kissing schoolchildren.” Bowman later told the journalist Dominick Dunne that Smith’s was “the acquittal [that] money can buy,” and that after the rape—after she told Smith he had just raped her—“he looked at me, the calmest, smuggest, most arrogant man, and he said, ‘No one will believe you.’ And the jury came in and said, ‘Not guilty,’ and I was right back in that room with that
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