christiefan915
Catalyst
This poor young girl is 16 but functions at the level of an eight year old. Why is this attorney emailing a private citizen about the case anyway... a person who has no connection with it?
"Michigan mom Elise Hilton is “beyond angry” after reading an email in which a Grand Rapids city attorney allegedly referred to the woman’s cognitively impaired daughter — an alleged rape victim — as a “crack and heroin whore.”
“She wandered the streets of downtown Grand Rapids, acting as a prostitute in exchange for heroin, cocaine, alcohol and so forth,” reads the email about the girl, who was 16 at the time of her alleged sexual assault.
Tom Gantert, a reporter for Michigan Capitol Confidential, obtained a copy of the email in response to a request he recently filed with the city under the Freedom of Information Act.
Gantert provided a copy of the email to the young woman’s mother, Elise Hilton, who shared it with The Huffington Post.
“I am appalled that an attorney acting in a professional capacity did something so egregious as to not only identify a sexual assault victim, but to call her a whore and a prostitute, which is wildly inaccurate,” Elise Hilton told HuffPost.
The email, which is attributed to former Grand Rapids City Attorney Catherine Mish, was reportedly sent to a private citizen from Mish’s city government email account on March 5, 2015. It was reportedly in response to a lawsuit Hilton and her husband had filed against the city for failing to pursue charges in the alleged sexual assault of Hilton’s daughter.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...pe-victim-a-whore_us_5732681ce4b0bc9cb04885b6
"Michigan mom Elise Hilton is “beyond angry” after reading an email in which a Grand Rapids city attorney allegedly referred to the woman’s cognitively impaired daughter — an alleged rape victim — as a “crack and heroin whore.”
“She wandered the streets of downtown Grand Rapids, acting as a prostitute in exchange for heroin, cocaine, alcohol and so forth,” reads the email about the girl, who was 16 at the time of her alleged sexual assault.
Tom Gantert, a reporter for Michigan Capitol Confidential, obtained a copy of the email in response to a request he recently filed with the city under the Freedom of Information Act.
Gantert provided a copy of the email to the young woman’s mother, Elise Hilton, who shared it with The Huffington Post.
“I am appalled that an attorney acting in a professional capacity did something so egregious as to not only identify a sexual assault victim, but to call her a whore and a prostitute, which is wildly inaccurate,” Elise Hilton told HuffPost.
The email, which is attributed to former Grand Rapids City Attorney Catherine Mish, was reportedly sent to a private citizen from Mish’s city government email account on March 5, 2015. It was reportedly in response to a lawsuit Hilton and her husband had filed against the city for failing to pursue charges in the alleged sexual assault of Hilton’s daughter.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...pe-victim-a-whore_us_5732681ce4b0bc9cb04885b6
