PROSECUTORS: INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO PROCEED IN RAPE ALLEGATION

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office today released the following statement on allegations of sexual abuse by a Boston Police officer against another Boston Police officer:

“For the past six weeks, Boston Police detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors conducted a comprehensive investigation of a report by a female Boston Police officer that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male colleague in August and September of this year, and that one or more of those assaults took place in Boston.

“In the course of that investigation, Boston Police detectives have interviewed more than two dozen witnesses and have gathered telephone records, hotel records, text messages, other personal records, and testimony from restraining order hearings in the Dorchester District Court.

After a thorough review of the evidence and the law, Suffolk prosecutors have concluded that the evidence in the case does not support a criminal prosecution. As a result, no criminal charges will be forthcoming in Suffolk County. The Boston Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division continues its administrative review of the matter to determine if there was any violation of police department rules and regulations.