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Civil Suit Filed Against Former Officer Involved in Reed Case

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"Woman sues police, Fennell over sex assault," is Isadora Vail's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.A woman who accused former Georgetown police Sgt. Jimmy Lewis Fennell Jr. of kidnapping and sexually assaulting her last year is suing him and the Police Department in federal court, accusing them of violating her civil rights. In the suit, the woman claims that last October, Fennell responded to a domestic disturbance call at her apartment and then forced her to leave with him, dance for him and have sex with him before he returned her to her home. She called 911 after he departed and reported that she'd been raped by an officer named Fennell, according to the suit, but she said she was "shocked and terrified at seeing Fennell as one of the responding officers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).