Patrick Kane accuser’s mother allegedly lied about rape kit

The bag shown to the public a couple days ago was not the rape kit bag, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III announced at a press conference Friday morning. But by Thursday, he said he was withdrawing from the case due to uncertainty surrounding the bag.

“Rape kits are not submitted in bags”. It was sealed at 11:39 a.m. and turned over to Hamburg Police one minute later.

Despite the seemingly shady nature of what’s happened this week, Sedita said his office will not bring charges against the accuser’s mother, as it appears she has not broken any laws. The mother was supposed to put the top in the bag and turn it into the police but never did.

“Generally speaking the sins of the mother and father are not usually transferrable to the daughter or the son”, said Sedita. It’s tainted from one end to the other.

Sedita said the complainant’s mother likely will not be prosecuted – “It is not a crime in the state of New York to make fraudulent representations to a private person”, he said – but added that he would “scour the law” to see what can be done. “There was not evidence tampering”.

But he pointed out that these kits are white cardboard boxes that are filled with swabs, slides and envelopes used to collect physical evidence. They also said that all along the rape kit has been properly handled. Eoannou later admitted it was from his office.

He told reporters he no longer had “confidence in the way a ripped-open evidence bag came into his possession”.

Eoannou went on to request an independent law-enforcement investigation into how the evidence bag supposedly ended up at the mother’s house. He reiterated what he had said the day before. “And it’s a dog and pony show”. “Whether or not someone has tried to reach out to me, I’m not going to comment on today”, he said.

Describing Eoannou’s actions as “reckless but true”, Sedita said Friday that he faces no criminal culpability. “The question in my mind is not when this case will go to a grand jury, it’s if this will go to a grand jury”.

He says Kane’s DNA was not found on the victim from the waist down, though Eoannou said that was not true. “This does not in any way reflect upon what occurred on the night in question”.

A witness who was a college friend of the NFL star’s accuser no longer backs her version of events and is reluctant to testify. It is unclear if she has given a sworn statement. He has not been charged with any crime.

But Kane’s guilt or innocence was irrelevant to whether the Hawks should have let him slip on a No. 88 sweater as if everything were normal. We dug through them and found some aggrieved Blackhawks fans who believe she’s sided with Kane’s accuser.

Cambria said that he belives that the series of abnormal developments in this case have “victimized” Patrick Kane and forever “tainted” the entire investigation. He says his office is still waiting on evidence and follow-up interviews.