The documentary, “Victim/Suspect,” follows journalist Rachel de Leon of the Center for Investigative Reporting. De Leon spends several years exploring cases in which women who allege sexual assault then find themselves aggressively prosecuted by police. She suggests that the men who allegedly raped the women appear to have been given the benefit of the doubt, or not investigated at all.
; an attempt by two investigators to sue the BuzzFeed news site for libel over its reporting on the case also was tossed out.was charged with filing a false report of rapeMannion pleaded guilty but, as detailed in the film, still is seeking to have that conviction overturned, arguing in part that key evidence was mishandled.
Rachel de Leon, center, speaks with Emma Mannion, left, whose Tuscaloosa case is featured in the Netflix documentary "Victim/Suspect," and Mannion's mother, Lisa Rappa-Mannion, right.Her investigation finds around 200 cases nationwide. She raises the possibility that persuading a victim to drop sexual assault charges, even by bringing the threat of prosecution against them, is a way for investigators to wipe thorny, time-consuming cases off their hands.
In 2018, when Abernathy and two of his investigators were dismissed from a wrongful death suit filed by Rondini’s parents, the sheriff vigorously defended his department’s work.
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