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An officer took a 14-year-old girl to get a rape kit. Then, he groomed her and raped her, lawsuit says.
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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New Orleans police officer Rodney Vicknair was in the emergency room last May with a 14-year-old girl he had driven in for a rape kit exam when he began showing her pictures on his cellphone. The images of a teenage girl in bikinis and lingerie, Vicknair allegedly said, were his daughter s modeling pictures.
That s how Vicknair first started grooming the girl for months of inappropriate calls, texts and meetings that eventually led to him sexually assaulting and raping her, the girl s family alleges in a lawsuit.
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