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Francis Evelyn, the school custodian who was arrested and jailed at Rikers Island after an eight-year-old girl accused him of repeatedly molesting her in the school's basement, is suing the city for $10 million. Evelyn's accuser was a troubled child with a relatively long history of lying about abuse, including accusing her father of raping her. According to The Daily News, her initial description of a man who purportedly abused her was that he was white and bald. Evelyn is bald, but black.
Although he was released for "insufficient evidence" in the matter that occurred this March, the school custodian with no criminal record is still troubled by his experience. He was hauled from Brooklyn's P.S. 91 in handcuffs and in front of television cameras. His picture was on the front page of newspapers that described him as a rapist. Cops offered to help him cut a deal if he confessed to abusing the eight-year-old girl, telling him that they had DNA evidence proving his guilt. And while in Rikers, Evelyn claims that his life was threatened repeatedly.
The principal of P.S. 91, Solomon Long, was suspended following the incident for failing to report that the girl who accused Evelyn had made other such allegations in the past that he found unsubstantiated. Long has since been reinstated as principal. The school offered Evelyn his job as custodian back, but he says he is too afraid to re-enter the school. He's currently using vacation time and accumulated sick days instead of returning to work. The Daily News quotes his daughter, who just returned from Iraq, as skeptical that even $10 million will make up for what happened to her father.
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No justice, no peace! Nigga you should sue the city for 100 million dollas.
you're every black man's envy, a chance to sue the city comes few and far between!
Good for him, sue their ass off.
more sloppy police work, just like in the central park jogger case.
God Bless you mr. evelyn. You and your family do us proud.
"We" will never learn the horrors of this trial-by-the-media until it happens to every one of us. Due process is a shambles. There is no innocent until proven guilty. Just newspapers eager to sell advertising space.
Perhaps if Mr Evelyn can bankrupt the city will anyone take notice and fix our broken laws? Voters don't care until it affects them directly.
Indeed, trial-by-media makes a mockery of our judicial system and the principle of being innocent until proven guilty. Andy by "trial-by-media" I'm talking about the disgraceful tactics used by the police and prosecutors to ruin someone's life before sufficient evidence is ever gathered. I hope this janitor gets every penny.
That should read 'And by "trial-by-media"...
I need some eggs...
This was a man being screwed by a lazy justice system that will do ANYTHING for a quick arrest and/or conviction.
Mr. Evelyn is INNOCENT. thank GOD he stuck to his guns.
God bless you sir. Bless you and your family.
You raised them well. We are on your side.
no snitching evelyn. you'll get yours someday - camron
He looks like Montel.
Man, I hope he wasn't raped at Riker's like I was! It's almost as bad at those Brazilian prisons you read about...
Damn, I hate children -- particularly stupid, retarded children who lie. Little bitch should be arrested and scared until she's a tongueless mute who never says a word out loud again.
This is what we get for child-porn/molestation hysteria, the latest manifestation of our American-Puritan prudishness. Yeah, shit happens -- but it doesn't happen everywhere, and it doesn't happen all the time.
Since when do we destroy a mans life, his families lives and toss him in jail based on what a child says? It's truly a sad state of affairs when the mind of a 10yr old can outwit the New York Police Department!
If this is the best our PD can offer I'm relocating to a mental institution.
Sincerly
Sent Packing
#12 This is what we get for child-porn/molestation hysteria, the latest manifestation of our American-Puritan prudishness.
This reminds me of the attorney who was recently sentenced to 12 years for murdering his neighbor, with the mistaken belief that he had molested his young daughter...
remember the mcmartin daycare case.
six years of criminal trials, no convictions, all charges dropped. media frenzy included a reporter having hanky panky with the social worker who interviewed the lying little bitches.
F the cop who told him they had DNA evidence against him. Lying pigs will say and do anything to get an arrest and conviction.
exactly, don't fall for the DNA trick, even with the latest technology, it will still take a couple of days to get DNA results.
He joins the ranks of Abner Louima, aka plumber ass.
give this man a full pension as if he had worked 40 years plus a cash settlement
he should also sue the media