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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.