[Trigger warning for sexual violence and institutional rape apologia.]
"We received information that Chief Saylor terminated an investigation by his department of a sexual battery of a child to keep a friend from going to jail."—Joyce Dawley, special agent-in-charge for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, at a news conference yesterday in Orlando, commenting on the arrest of Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor, who allegedly refused to investigate his friend Scott Bush, who has also been arrested and "charged with sexual battery of a minor under 12, a capital offense, along with lewd and lascivious acts upon a minor, a third-degree felony."
No small amount of victim-blaming used against survivors of sexual violence is rooted in the misconception that police are universally interested in pursuing rapists.
This is not the case.
(My profound thanks to Special Agent Joyce Dawley, who is evidence that the reverse is not the case, either.)
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