Apologies, thread.
I was conflating information I researched about a film, I saw once, but looked up the writer and her experiences out of interest.
While “The Lovely Bones” is a work of fiction based upon her memoirs (I didn't like the poorly constructed film, but it stuck in my mind for spoken reasons), Alice Sebold has stated in interviews that the novel was inspired by her own experience of being raped as a college student. The conviction of the 'right' man she accused was inaccurate, the 'right' man was never caught. She had insisted her accusations were correct and had "no debate" about it. This is because, after the incident, a man in street smiled at her.
The wrongly accused man spent 16 years behind bars and he received an extremely small apology. This side of things became more of interest over the film and this is the conflated info hence the apology.
