A federal judge in New Orleans postponed a trial in a civil case against the city following The Post’s revelations Thursday.
A teen and her mother filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and its police superintendent in 2021. who sexually abused a teen he met responding to a rape report, a judge delayed the trial for her civil case against the city.The victim’s lawyers, in a motion filed Thursday, accused the city of withholding “highly relevant text messages.” The texts
Now the jury trial, which was set to begin Monday, will be rescheduled while the two sides debate the relevance of the text messages — and what they mean for the city’s liability in the case. The city has declined to comment on the case, citing the pending litigation. In court filings Thursday, attorneys for New Orleans described the text message in September 2020 from then-independent police monitor Susan Hutson to then-superintendent Shaun Ferguson as “irrelevant” and denied improperly withholding materials or making any misrepresentations to the court.
Records show the police monitor learned the officer’s first name, approximate age and the date he met Nicole. Hutson told The Post she quickly reached out to the New Orleans Police Department to alert officials to the potential crime.“Hey Arlinda. This is an urgent call. Please call me,” Hutson wrote, according to images of the texts obtained by The Post.“Hey Shaun, I need to reach Arlinda urgently, if she’s near you can your all her to call me?” she texted.
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