SFPD, SF General Denies Knowledge of Capp St. Rape
Several inconsistencies have emerged in the alleged Monday morning rape at the corner of 19th and Capp.
Originally, a letter circulated by a friend of the alleged victim claimed the rape was reported to the police and the victim received stitches at San Francisco General Hospital:
The rape was reported at SFGH as well as in a police report, and also to SF WAR. If necessary, my friend is willing to provide hospital records with her name blacked out as evidence.
However, both SFPD and SF General claim to have no records of the incident occurring, according to reports in both SF Appeal and Mission Local.
Initially, in spite of not reporting the crime to the police, the victim was quite willing to talk to the press in hopes of preventing future rapes:
The victim, who sounded shaken up by the experience, came forward to Mission Local because she wants to warn others about the incident, she said.
“I don’t want someone else in this situation,” she said. “Hopefully we can get people notified and be careful.”
The original Facebook post authored by the victim's friend, which claimed the police and Mission blogs were not responding to the crime, has been since deleted from Facebook. SF Appeal then contacted said friend, who provided the victim's phone number. However, that conversation did not yield any answers:
When contacted by the Appeal, however, the woman who answered the phone said she was done talking about the attack, ending the call by saying."Lose my number. I'm done with this fucking shit, goodbye."
We can only hope this was a fabricated story, otherwise this speaks volumes of the competency of SFPD. (And should it be true, we join SFPD in imploring the victim to report the crime.)
UPDATE: The friend of the victim has denied ever talking to the SF Appeal.
Comments
Putting a link to her facebook is not cool Kevin. Be very careful of what you post.
Her name was published and linked to her facebook in the other article as well.
She was acting as a spokesperson of sorts, and went on the record to multiple other publications. However, I have redacted her name, as I think she signed up for a bit more than she expected.
This whole thing is all over the place and my heart really goes out to the victim and her friends. I had multiple conversations at happy hour with people that are a degree separated from her and i can't imagine all of this publicity and the torrential aftermath of press following up is really helping her deal recovery. It's a shame that others are being dragged into and I totally understand the author of the original facebook post making their profile private.
This story is getting really bizarre to the point that it sounds like a hoax. The police and hospital not having records is a huge warning sign, but look at some of the other stories.
- Supposedly she was dragged from bender's to a driveway on capp, presumably screaming (considering she had enough strength to scratch and hurt her attackers, this seems reasonable). I live right by that corner store pictured above, and it is well lit and open past 2 every night. If they really dragged a girl screaming for her life past that place, I can't see how the cops would not have been called.
- A friend saw the attackers walking the next day, but didn't call the cops?!
- The level of violent details is alarming. 2 stitches to the cervix and bruises covering the lower half of her body? You would think police would have been cleaning up blood and taking evidence similar to the fair oaks rape last year. Also, it sounds like such a traumatic experience, why share that level of fucked-up details on local blogs? Do those facts really serve the best interest of the victim, or the community?
It sounds like you have your facts a bit off:
1) No allegation that this occurred in front of Benders or the corner store - only "On the Corner of 19th and Capp" whatever that means exactly, and that the driveway was presumably on Capp. Women screaming on Capp is not rare, and the tendency for bystanders to ignore such things is well documented.
2) SF General will take a report, but my understanding is that all such reports must be kept confidential - even to the point of denying knowledge that the person named was ever treated. So this is hardly an inconsistency.
3) I see blood on the street all the time, it rarely appears that the FD is there hosing it off or anyone spontaneously taking evidence.
While this story is a bit confusing at this point, personally I don't think proclaiming that a potential rape victim is lying on the internet is especially productive. While fabricating such a story would be reprehensible, we can see that making any such claim draws a lot of ridicule, and therefore I have strong doubts about someone publicizing a story of stranger rape for attention. I also see nothing inconsistent with a traumatized victim both not wanting to talk to police (many don't trust police or feel they can help - right or wrong) and having a friend try to warn the local community through publicizing the attack.
To me some measure of sympathy and trust should go to this unknown victim unless this attack is definitively proven to be a fabrication. This seems especially true given the similarities between the alleged assault and the prior one in the same area.
Completely fake, otherwise there would be some evidence other than a spotty story.
Some troll has captured viewers with a scary made up story. Move along, nothing to see.
These people should be ashamed. Stunts like this are not just an insult to actual rape victims, but harms the creditability of legitimate victims of rape.
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