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Chippopotanuse t1_j293h26 wrote

> According to the lawsuit, Birchmore was three months pregnant at the time of her death, and one of the officers was the father of her baby.

> "Birchmore's death was the culmination of a near decade-long scheme of grooming and repeated sexual assaults from a young age by certain police officers," the lawsuit alleges.

The fuck?!? I hope all these guys rot in jail.

And sadly, becoming pregnant is an often deadly thing when someone is in a relationship that has domestic violence:

Homicide leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S.

> October 21, 2022 – Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner violence and firearms, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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toastyghostie t1_j29qk72 wrote

Most likely they won't go to jail, unfortunately. From what I understand, it's very difficult to prosecute rape without a statement from the victim, even if there's evidence that there was sexual contact when the victim was a minor. It sounds like they're trying to do as much as they can within the current legal restrictions.

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