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The anonymous woman was raped in Houston in 2013, according to court documents, and was cooperating with prosecutors when she suffered a breakdown while testifying in December 2015.
She has bipolar disorder and was admitted to a local hospital for mental health treatment when the judge ordered a recess for the holiday break until January 2016.
According to the documents, authorities were scheduled to be on vacation and "did not want the responsibility of having to monitor Jane Doe's well being or provide victim services to her during the holiday recess."
The complaint alleges that the district attorney's office obtained an order from the Harris County sheriff to take the woman into custody so she would not flee before completing her testimony.
The employee booking her into Harris County Jail identified her as a "defendant in a sexual assault case, rather than the victim." That impacted her treatment from jail staff, as the complaint reads:
The Harris County Jail psychiatric staff tormented Jane Doe and caused her extreme emotional distress and mental anguish by further defaming her, falsely insisting to her that she was being charged with sexual assault, and refusing to acknowledge her status as an innocent rape victim."
Doe also suffered beatings from other inmates and from a guard, who then requested assault charges to be filed against her "in an attempt to cover up the brutal abuse," according to the complaint.
[...] The complaint notes that her "rapist was also an inmate in the same facility" and treated more humanely. "Her rapist was not denied medical care, psychologically tortured, brutalized by other inmates, or beaten by jail guards," it reads.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by frojack on Monday July 25 2016, @05:00PM
Yes, there's likely a whole lot more to this story.
The whole story seems taken from her lawyer's pleading.
Not something one normally takes at face value, even in a court of law.
Yet I'm constantly amazed at the mindset around SN that immediately assumes that This Lawyer was 100 percent truthful, (while in every other situation all lawyers are liars), just because it suits their political belief system (at least for the moment).
Quite likely she is due some compensation. Quite possibly the DA needs to be put on the hot seat. And quite obviously a lot of SN readers need to start reading and thinking like they are older than 15.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @06:53PM
> And quite obviously a lot of SN readers need to start reading and thinking like they are older than 15.
Start with #1 man. You have a history of making up shit from whole cloth just because it fits your own internal narratives. Even when 2 minutes of google would have shown you otherwise.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Monday July 25 2016, @10:19PM
The DA has made some public statements defending herself, which confirm several though not all key facts of the case. Here's a link to her statement, embedded in a criminal lawyer's assessment of the case. To the best of my knowledge he is older than 15. http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/07/23/harris-countys-devon-anderson-strips-naked/#more-29388 [simplejustice.us]
If you've read much about jail conditions, the victim's account is plausible. Things like that happen All The Time, whatever actually happened to her.
Whatever turns up in this case, there are enough other data points to build a pattern. For example, there was the judge who referred to a rape victim as "the accused". Repeatedly.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/judge-sex-assault-robin-camp-1.3663552?cmp=rss [www.cbc.ca]
You don't have to like the people who talk about "rape culture" to look around and notice that it's a thing.