The day of reckoning approaches for William Kennedy Smith. The 30-year-old med-school student, a nephew of Senator Ted Kennedy, surrendered to police in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday, to face charges that he raped a 29-year-old woman on the family estate over Easter weekend. In a nine-page affidavit that described the alleged crime in clinical detail, Palm Beach County state attorney David Bludworth filed one charge of sexual battery, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 4 1/2 years in prison, and a misdemeanor charge of battery.
Court documents also indicate that Senator Kennedy may have whisked his nephew out of...
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