NEW YORK — When terrible things happen, like the kidnapping and murder of Memphis, Tennessee teacher Eliza Fletcher, many wonder what could have been done to prevent it.
A young woman who said she was sexually assaulted by the same suspect in the murder of Fletcher said police did not do enough for her case -- and failed Fletcher.Franklin, 22, spoke to ABC News'Franklin was allegedly assaulted by suspect Cleotha Abston Henderson a year before Fletcher went missing, but the DNA results from her rape kit were not reported until after Fletcher disappeared.
Franklin and her lawyers contend that if Franklin's rape kit had been processed sooner, authorities would've been able to identify Henderson and get him off the streets. She said she agreed to pick him up from what he claimed was his apartment, which she says turned out to be abandoned. She said the next thing she did was drive herself to the hospital, then to a Rape Crisis Center, where she was given a rape kit and interviewed by sex crimes detective. She said, on the night of her attack, she gave authorities the man's phone number, walked them through the crime scene, described his car, his dating profile and all the details of the assault.
Franklin is now suing the city of Memphis and the apartment complex where she says the attack happened.
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