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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: 3, Informative) by frojack on Monday July 25 2016, @07:01PM
So, which is it? Was she in jail because the DA thought she was going to refuse to testify against her own rapist or because she was a defendant suspected of sexual assualt according to the DA's signature on the paperwork?
Read TFS again. And maybe the TFA as well.
You will find out the DA lied, in order to prevent her running away, he alleged she was a defendant in a rape trial.
Maybe by mistake, but that seems unlikely. Mistakes don't last a month. Most probably because he could hold her longer under an arrest warrant than he could under a material witness warrant.
The DA never suspected she was a perpetrator.
And by the way, a county Jail is not a for profit prison operation.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:39AM
> The DA never suspected she was a perpetrator.
Yes, but everyone else who saw or heard his lie, no matter how indirectly, *did* (at least have grounds, depending on how much faith they have in the DA or the system, to) suspect she might be a rapist. You appear to be trying to defend yourself as if you had made a different argument. Your actual argument was:
> She was never suspected of being a rapist.
Which flies against all facts and all reason - including facts and reasons you have subsequently presented yourself. You're just too proud to back down after making such a stupid statement, I can't believe anyone capable of stringing a few words together would still stand by such an absurdity unless contradiction was simply a way of life.
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