Harder to Prove

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4.6 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Episode 3: Louisville officials say rape cases are hard to prosecute. They are not wrong. But we talked with police, prosecutors and experts from around the country who told us it’s not impossible — you just have to be willing to lose a few trials. (Note: This episode includes a series of brief descriptions of sexual violence from courtroom recordings throughout the 14th and 15th minutes, and again in the 17th and 18th minutes.)
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0:00.0	From L.P. App.
0:02.0	Louisville Public Media.
0:04.0	A listener note.
0:05.0	This story is about rape investigations and includes descriptions of sexual violence. I just felt like it wasn't in the loop on anything like I was bugging them.
0:21.2	If they don't think the prosecutor's going to approve it, they don't exert the effort
0:24.8	and maybe fully investigating it.
0:26.8	I'm not positive that something didn't happen after she left your room.
0:31.0	I'm not going to allow you to act like my detectives are
0:33.9	not thoroughly investigating cases because it's going to sound good for your
0:37.8	article.
0:40.8	Essentially it all comes down to whether or not as a prosecutor I believe that the
0:47.5	evidence supports our burden which is beyond a reasonable death.
0:51.5	This is Dig a podcast from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and
0:55.2	Louisville Public Media. I'm Eleanor clipping off.
1:00.0	So far, I've been telling you about Jen Sonato, the woman who reported a rape to the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2018.
1:09.0	Seven months later, police told the main suspect, the man Jen accused of rape that he was off the hook.
1:15.7	They had no plans to arrest him because Commonwealth attorney Christie Gray
1:20.0	had deemed it not a good case to try.
1:24.0	L&P. D. Told Jen that the investigation was ongoing,
1:27.0	and it was.
1:28.0	Police were waiting for DNA to come back from the crime lab
1:31.0	and they interviewed at least one other person of interest, but they ruled him out.
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