Prior Victim Sues City of Memphis, Claiming They Failed to Investigate Her Complaint/Stop The Alleged Murderer of Eliza Fletcher

In I Saw The Devil's Face, I talk about the heartbreaking case of Lavail Calhoun, whose case was allowed to fail at the grand jury level.  Therefore her alleged attacker, Dondi Craig, will always remain officially innocent until proven guilty of the crimes against her.  Craig then went on to abduct, sexually torture, and murder two small girls as I discuss in the book.

Now we have another example of a similar situation.  A woman named Alicia Franklin has filed a lawsuit against the City of Memphis, because she says they failed to follow up on her complaints about a man she called Cleo attacking her back in 2021.  The same man now stands accused of abducting and murdering jogger Eliza Fletcher.

From the above link:

"Alicia Franklin sued the city of Memphis on Tuesday, accusing the Memphis Police Department of failing to follow up on leads in her case even though she completed a rape kit and provided the first name, phone number, social media information, and a description of the car driven by Cleotha Abston. Abston is accused of abducting Fletcher, a teacher, while she was on her morning run and killing her on Sept. 2."

It's exhausting to me, how it's always the same old thing.  The police just can't bring themselves to take it seriously when we complain about rape.  Then somebody gets murdered.  I'm fatigued with the apathy about the damage done to women's lives.  It didn't bother the city, whatever was done to Alicia Franklin's life last year when she reported it.  I'm tired of how obvious it is.

"Franklin is now seeking damages for the lack of justice in her own case as well as to bring to light how police failed other women by failing to arrest Abston sooner.

“I definitely believe she would still be alive today,” Franklin told Good Morning America on Wednesday."

I'm glad she's doing that.  I think that's really the only way you get America's attention, is by suing them and getting paid.  That's the only way anything changes.  I'm proud of her.