Languages usa medical supply Newspapers reporting on the jogger rape seem to have borrowed their language directly from the coverage of the Scottsboro Boys case. In 1931, nine black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama, and newspapers at the time called them “fiends,” “brutes” and “beasts unfit to be human.” Nearly 60 years later, the Central Park Five were labeled as “bestial,” and a columnist for the New York Post recommended that “the eldest of the wolf pack [should be] tried, convicted and hanged in Central Park.”