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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b6?ir=Crime&section=us_crime&utm_hp_ref=crime

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.

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.

According to Hilton, her daughter, who was 16 years old in January 2012, got in trouble at Hope Academy of West Michigan and was allowed to leave before her parents could pick her up. It was while walking home from school that her daughter was given alcohol by a group of men and gang-raped, Hilton said.

“We ended up getting her back 48 hours later,” Hilton said. “She had been repeatedly and brutally sexually assaulted. She was taken to an emergency room, where they discovered she had sustained a lot of trauma. They removed a 2-inch bottle cap from her cervix.”

Hilton said the Grand Rapids Police Department was notified, and an officer questioned her daughter alone for about 20 minutes.

“He told me he thought she was lying,” Hilton said. “He said her story did not make any sense – that she was not sequencing events correctly. I said, ‘You do realize she is cognitively impaired and functions at about the level of a third-grader? On a good day she cannot sequence events correctly.’ He said there was nothing for them to investigate and that was it. My daughter was absolutely traumatized and was hospitalized for four and a half months in a state psychiatric hospital for children.”

After consulting an attorney, Hilton and her husband filed a lawsuit against the school and the Grand Rapids Police Department. At the time, Hilton was working for the Acton Institute, a nonprofit organization that was involved in a bitter tax dispute with the city.

There are just no words for this.
 
I'd be on an unending quest to see all involved in this travesty out of a job. What the hell is the matter with these people? This was a child not a seasoned professional escort ffs. I wonder if they even did an SAE on her before the cops came in and just pissed on everything.
 
I'm thinking there's another side to this story and the email writer is entitled to her personal opinion on the matter, regardless of how distasteful it may be.

Now that being said, obviously the child is a victim regardless, simply because of her age, but all we see in this story is a parent saying, "my kid was allowed to leave school, she was attacked and drugged, nobody did anything, oh, and someone called her a whore."

If that is the case then I hope there's justice for her, I certainly hope she's able to get sufficient help.
 
Boston Burns- I'm thinking there's another side to this story and the email writer is entitled to her personal opinion on the matter, regardless of how distasteful it may be.

Now that being said, obviously the child is a victim regardless, simply because of her age, but all we see in this story is a parent saying, "my kid was allowed to leave school, she was attacked and drugged, nobody did anything, oh, and someone called her a whore."

If that is the case then I hope there's justice for her, I certainly hope she's able to get sufficient help.
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What are you saying? Coz you see, I'm still stuck on how they removed a frippin bottle cap from her cervix... wtf kind of shit is that? How did it even get there? They discovered a lot of trauma. The men had her for a couple days?... doing whatever they felt like doing to her regardless of the pain and trauma they were causing. How is it you can be so flip about this?
 
Boston Burns- I'm thinking there's another side to this story and the email writer is entitled to her personal opinion on the matter, regardless of how distasteful it may be.

Now that being said, obviously the child is a victim regardless, simply because of her age, but all we see in this story is a parent saying, "my kid was allowed to leave school, she was attacked and drugged, nobody did anything, oh, and someone called her a whore."

If that is the case then I hope there's justice for her, I certainly hope she's able to get sufficient help.
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What are you saying? Coz you see, I'm still stuck on how they removed a frippin bottle cap from her cervix... wtf kind of shit is that? How did it even get there? They discovered a lot of trauma. The men had her for a couple days?... doing whatever they felt like doing to her regardless of the pain and trauma they were causing. How is it you can be so flip about this?
People make bad decisions that put themselves in terrible situations, we know NOTHING about her mental capacity, just what the parents have told the media. Just because bad stuff has happened, doesn't mean someone is to blame, maybe she was doing a dildo show with a poorly screwed on coke bottle.
Just because they used a few trigger-words and got your attention, "16 year-old, mentally challenged and bottlecap in vagina" doesn't mean the story is accurately being presented to us.
 
She wandered the streets of downtown Grand Rapids, acting as a prostitute in exchange for heroin, cocaine, alcohol and so forth...

Well, is it true? Because, if it's true, mom has no business being offended by privately offered and accurate observations.

Rape cases are inherently difficult to prosecute, unfortunately. If the victim is unable or unwilling to testify that the events were not consensual, there's absolutely nothing the prosecutors can do. Furthermore, if there's something to the email comment, and she is, in fact, unable to sequence the events... I can see why no charges were pursued.

On a related note, did you know women 35 and older are the worst jurors to have on a rape trial that involves the victim's character being brought into question? They are most likely to issue a not guilty ruling. Judgmental bitches.
 
Well, is it true? Because, if it's true, mom has no business being offended by privately offered and accurate observations.

Rape cases are inherently difficult to prosecute, unfortunately. If the victim is unable or unwilling to testify that the events were not consensual, there's absolutely nothing the prosecutors can do. Furthermore, if there's something to the email comment, and she is, in fact, unable to sequence the events... I can see why no charges were pursued.

On a related note, did you know women 35 and older are the worst jurors to have on a rape trial that involves the victim's character being brought into question? They are most likely to issue a not guilty ruling. Judgmental bitches.
It said the email was sent from this attorney to a private citizen.
The girl was 16. What was this attorney doing discussing this with a private citizen.
At 16 she was the victim of a crime.
Did you read the part about the bottle cap stuffed in her vagina?
16 with the mental capacity of a 3rd grader can not consent to sex.
This attorney had no right to discuss this by email with a private citizen
 
It said the email was sent from this attorney to a private citizen.

This attorney had no right to discuss this by email with a private citizen

Actually, yes, if no charges were being actively pursued, this attorney did. It may not have been wise, for obvious reasons, especially with pending civil litigation, but the attorney did not break the law.

And the age of consent in Michigan is 16. There is no close-in-age restriction. Come the age of 16, you are free to sleep with whomever you want, no matter their age.

Yes, I did read the part about the bottle cap. My heart weeps for this girl, but prosecutors need more than that to work with.
 
I'm thinking there's another side to this story and the email writer is entitled to her personal opinion on the matter, regardless of how distasteful it may be.

Yeah i'd like to know what role this attorney had in the investigation. Was this just some random gov't attorney, not even associated with the police? Actually the report says she was a former attorney with the city. Interesting. So was she even employed with the city at the time?

I don't see what significance this has with the lawsuit. If some random grounds keeper in the parks dept said some mean things about the girl, would that be blasted all over the news too? THis shit should never even find its way into the courtroom.

I do like that this reporter and family are using it to make the city look god awful though. I find that very funny, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with the case. Fuck the gov't.

I also hope this bitch is sued personally.

For what, being mean? Freedom of speech.

Sounds like she's no longer with the city. If she was, she'd certainly deserve punitive measures from her superior for sending innappropriate personal emails using her gov't account. However i don't see the grounds for a lawsuit.
 
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against former City Attorney Catherine Mish over an email in which she called a young woman a "crack and heroin whore."

Mish sent the message to attorney Donald Zerial, using her work email, but a judge said she was not acting in her official capacity. She is also entitled to qualified immunity, U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist said.

"The fact that Mish used her work email to respond to Zerial's email, while arguably done in bad judgment, does not transform Mish's private conduct into official City business," Quist wrote in a 15-page opinion.

The parents of the mentally disabled young woman have filed unsuccessful lawsuits against the city and police over the handling of their daughter's alleged rape five years ago when she was a 15-year-old student at Hope Academy in Grand Rapids.

The Grand Rapids Press and MLive are not naming the family because the young woman is an alleged sex assault victim.

She was told to leave school on Jan. 16, 2012, after being disruptive. After she left, she was induced by a stranger to go into a house where she was repeatedly raped by several men over the course of days, the parents' lawsuit said.

She eventually escaped, wearing only a bed sheet. She was found in an abandoned building.

She was taken to the YWCA for examination and a hospital. Several days later, a Grand Rapids police detective interviewed her and concluded that her story did not make sense.

He also believed she would not be a good witness.

U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney in March dismissed the parents' lawsuit against the city, two police officers and others.
 

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