Notice of complaint related to 2023-0134

OF
GIVE
OFFICE OF
POLICE OVERSIGHT
COUNDED
NOTICE OF COMPLAINT
February 17, 2023
ICMS #: 2023-0134
On February 14, 2023, the OPO received an email complaint.
The complainant alleges: The complainant left a complaint via voicemail that stated she
is a mother of 2 boys who are being molested. Police are familiar with her
on
a
"personal/professional level." They are judging her based on her appearance on her
website. Cops are saying there's no evidence when there is a lot of evidence and they will
not help her. As the complainant was not reachable by phone, OPO emailed requesting the
date, time, and location. The complainant responded with the following via email:
The situation I reported occurred
I think
,
or
the
or
I'm not entirely sure. It would have been around
at
the
I'm not exactly sure what I reported previously, I assume I was
ruffled by what had transpired immediately before filing, but 'd now like to add: On
at
at
, or
I called 911 to
,
report, again, the sexual abuse of my two children
and
An
ambulance was dispatched to the location, alongside a handful of officers, and the children
were helped onto the vehicle, where we waited for a DFPS drop-in before we could head
to the hospital and have them examined. A pair of policemen located the father of the
children, who was waiting in the parking lot while this transpired, and after a conversation
with him, pulled my children off the ambulance in direct violation of my parental rights,
while evidence of the molestation existed simultaneously in their evidence files and in my
hand. (I've been recording our almost nightly Skype calls for several months and their
father frequently abuses them during the calls, carefully keeping himself just off screen. At
least a dozen of these had already been submitted to APD prior to
, and
additional evidence was immediately accessible via my cell phone. The officers on scene
simply did not have the patience to listen, and took my ex husband's testimony as fact,
because to do SO required less effort.) Thereafter, my understandable devastation was used
to justify arresting me for a "terroristic threat," words said under extreme duress far out of
earshot to all but one cop.
OF
CITY
OFFICE OF
POLICE OVERSIGHT
NOTICE OF COMPLAINT
The treatment about which I previously complained is one occurrence of many. A quick
look at my criminal history also shows a criminal trespass at a daycare, where I stated
simply, "I am going to hug my children or you are going to have to arrest me." I was jailed
for three days. Invariably, when I stand up for my children's rights, I am undermined,
prevented, abused, arrested. It is a downright perversion of justice, and at the very real cost
of my children's safety.
Ultimately, a review of the circumstances is not sufficient to resolve this issue. If you could
please also urge investigators to revisit the evidence in their possession and/or included
here: duty-to-discover (google.com) not allowing any pre-existing bias to inform their
understanding of the information, and facilitate a medical examination, a right guaranteed
to all survivors of sexual abuse but denied to a 7 and a 9 year old child on grounds of
ignorance, that would better suit my needs. Please, at the risk of demonstrating a bias of
my own, have a woman take a look. Statistically, they're better at reading the non-verbal
cues that are essential to an accurate analysis of this situation. If that's not possible, you
suck.
This notice of complaint is a request for Internal Affairs to initiate an investigation to
determine if the employee conduct is within compliance of APD policy, Civil Service
Rules, and Municipal Civil Service Rules.