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Eugene

(61,969 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 08:44 PM Apr 2015

Arizona sheriff's office mishandling of rape case results in $3.5m settlement

Source: Associated Press

Officials agreed to pay $3.5m to settle a lawsuit that alleged metro Phoenix’s sheriff botched the investigation into the rape of a 13-year-old girl and failed to arrest the suspect who then went on to sexually attack her again.

The girl’s rape case was among more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office during a three-year period ending in 2007.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lisa Allen says Arpaio’s office agrees with the decision to resolve the lawsuit.

The botched investigations served as an embarrassment for Arpaio, who promotes himself as “America’s toughest sheriff”.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/08/arizona-phoenix-sheriff-joe-arpaio-rape-case-settlement



Associated Press in Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday 8 April 2015 22.52 BST
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Arizona sheriff's office mishandling of rape case results in $3.5m settlement (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2015 OP
And he's still sheriff?????? valerief Apr 2015 #1
He is an real expensive asshole for Maricopa County... winstars Apr 2015 #2
And yet they keep voting to keep him! City Lights Apr 2015 #10
Good... n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #3
Joe Rolando Apr 2015 #4
Why is "America's Toughest Sheriff" always as crooked as a snake? jmowreader Apr 2015 #5
Hell, he's too damn busy trying to find the illegals to worry about a little thing like a Stonepounder Apr 2015 #6
Yeah he's real tough on crime -- especially the female victims of crime. nt Hekate Apr 2015 #7
This may be the same case, but there was also a similar one where the girl was mentally challenged, okaawhatever Apr 2015 #8
He was too busy looking for Obama's birth certificate Midnight Writer Apr 2015 #9
you bring up a valid point - UpInArms Apr 2015 #11
 

Rolando

(88 posts)
4. Joe
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:13 PM
Apr 2015

Arizona specializes in supporting questionable characters in responsible positions. Sometimes the costs are direct, and the poor people, getting poorer all the time, have to pay the bill. Other times, the costs are indirect, as in enormous defense expenditures supported by our representatives in Congress. We still pay. I'm getting out of here as soon as possible.

jmowreader

(50,569 posts)
5. Why is "America's Toughest Sheriff" always as crooked as a snake?
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:15 PM
Apr 2015

The one before Arpaio was Gerald Hege, who was busted for corruption .

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
6. Hell, he's too damn busy trying to find the illegals to worry about a little thing like a
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:15 PM
Apr 2015

13-year-old getting raped. Way, way down on his list of things to get 'tough' about.

okaawhatever

(9,469 posts)
8. This may be the same case, but there was also a similar one where the girl was mentally challenged,
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:24 PM
Apr 2015

there was DNA evidence, but they closed the case before the DNA results came back. Apparently Sheriff Joe closes a lot of cases under what is called "special circumstances". One of the ways he pads his stats. There are many instances similar to this.

Midnight Writer

(21,819 posts)
9. He was too busy looking for Obama's birth certificate
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:48 PM
Apr 2015

I wish I was making this up. Sheriff Joe sent his investigators to Hawaii to search for evidence that Obama was not a US citizen. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this snipe hunt by diverting money from criminal investigations (especially rapes).

I know this case pre-dates the Obama investigation, but it illustrates his priorities.

UpInArms

(51,285 posts)
11. you bring up a valid point -
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 11:02 AM
Apr 2015

and my question is then:

If Ted Cruz is a "naturalized citizen" and eligible to run for President because his mother was a US citizen -

how is that any different from Obama's mother being a US citizen?

(and, yes, I know he was born in Hawaii)

but ... not one of these stupid peeps even hear their own hypocrisy

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