Harvey Failed To Process Hundreds Of Rape Kits, Lawsuit Claims

March 22, 2012 1:42 PM

(Credit: CBS)

CHICAGO (CBS) — A federal class-action lawsuit has been filed against the city of Harvey, accusing it of failing to process 200 rape kits.

At the center of the allegation is a 22-year-old rape victim identified as Jane Doe, WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports.

WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller Reports

Her attorney Yao Dinizulu has filed the suit against the city of Harvey and the man who was police commander.

The suit says Jane Doe was raped in 2007 when she was 17 — and that her rape kit was never processed.

Not only hers, the attorney says, but a total of 200 rape kits.

“I think in some respects, it had to be intentional,” Dinizulu said. “Because how do you not process, for over a decade, any of these rape kits?”

Dinizulu says they will be seeking a large financial penalty.

An attorney for the city of Harvey says the lawsuit has “numerous factual inaccuracies and legally is without merit.”

G-Lep

Does this mean that a bunch of rapin’ jigab00s have gotten off the hook?!
tom sharp

Why would that happen: Could it be that some of the police would be Identified by processing those rape kits, or they just took a little bribe a la Derrick Smith???

zatso

WIN BIG!

Bankrupt that now sleazy (OUTHOUSE) city.

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CHICAGO

WHAT ABOUT ALL THE BLACKS THAT WAS SENT TO JAIL FOR BEING BLACK?? REMEMBER THEY CHANGE THE NAME FROM MARKHAM COURT HOUSE TO DARKHAM COURT BECAUSE BLACKS WAS OVER SENTENCE,AND BOGUSLY CONVICTED AND SENT TO JAIL FOR DECADES FOR CRIMES THAT ONLY CARRIES 3 OR 4 YEARS REMEMBER THAT???
Centurion

200 Plus rape kits never processed! What the city of Harvey needs is a good natural catastrophe. Perhaps a fire, a hurricane. If the earth could open up and just swallow the whole town….the world will be a better place, if only for a moment.