Seeking to quell uneasiness among some community members that the incident was racially motivated, the Woodlynne Borough Council has voted to give a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of three white men in the rape of a black teenage girl.
Of that amount, $1,200 will come from the public treasury, and the remainder will come from the pockets of Mayor Drew Coyle and the other six council members.
The teenager said that on May 25 at 9:45 a.m., while walking on a Woodlynne street, she was abducted by three white men, raped, and released in Collingswood. She walked to the nearby Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, where she was treated, according to the prosecutor's office.
