Detective Kimball was assigned to her case, but she wrote that he never investigated, and instead said wildly inappropriate things to her. She later filed a restraining order against her assailant, which led Detective Kimball to joke that she was paranoid, she wrote. When she reported his inappropriate behavior to his supervisor, word got back to Detective Kimball immediately, she added. A deputy district attorney told her Detective Kimball was “a fine detective” and insisted there was no evidence to back up her claim, she wrote. It only functioned to protect not one, but two, alleged rapists,” Ms. Abusheikh concluded in her essay.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2019 00:00 UTC