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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2014, 07:03 AM Sep 2014

Tested after 14 years, rape kit incriminates ex-Memphis cop who now works at kids home

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/11/tested-after-14-years-rape-kit-incriminates-ex-memphis-cop-who-now-works-at-kids-home/

Tested after 14 years, rape kit incriminates ex-Memphis cop who now works at kids home
By David Edwards
Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:39 EDT

A former Memphis police officer has been charged with raping a crime victim 14 years after the assault occurred.

Bridges Randle, 40, was indicted for aggravated rape for the 14-year-old crime thanks to a previously-untested rape kit that finally made it into the national crime database last year, WMC reported on Wednesday.

According to investigators, officers responded to a domestic violence call from a woman on June 24, 2000. The 23-year-old woman said that a man posing as an officer returned later in the day to ask her more questions.

She said that the man forced her into a bedroom, and raped her at gunpoint.

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Tested after 14 years, rape kit incriminates ex-Memphis cop who now works at kids home (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

I thought there was a rather short statute of limitations on rape NV Whino Sep 2014 #1

One has to wonder if there is an ulterior reason for southerncrone Sep 2014 #2

NV Whino

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1. I thought there was a rather short statute of limitations on rape

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 09:57 AM

Sep 2014

Not much info in the article. Maybe the case is still open because they are only now getting around to processing the rape kit.

southerncrone

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2. One has to wonder if there is an ulterior reason for

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:57 PM

Sep 2014

these cases to be backed up that deep.
Thirty years! What has been damaged or lost or contaminated in all those years?

Another example of the "war on women". It screams: "Crimes against you women are not high on our priority list."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/tennessee-rape-kits-untested/14977109/

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