— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
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 (5)
Putting a link to her facebook is not cool Kevin. Be very careful of what you post.
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?
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.