Denise Huskins and her fiance Aaron Quinn have settled with the city of Vallejo for $2.5 million dollars regarding a defamation lawsuit the couple filed against the city.
In March of 2015, Huskins was kidnapped from Quinn's house in Vallejo and reported missing. Police spent the next two days interrogating and pressuring Quinn, believing him to be responsible; but Huskins reappeared hundreds of miles away in Huntington Beach, claiming to have been kidnapped and raped and then let go by her captor. Police did not believe her story - the investigating detective stated that she "didn't act like a kidnapping victim" - and promptly labelled the entire incident a hoax, publicly repudiating both Huskins and Quinn in the press and on social media for fabricating the kidnapping story and wasting police resources. Three months later, while investigating a man named Matthew Muller in a string of home invasion robberies, police found cell phone video that Muller had taken of himself raping the bound and blindfolded Huskins. He was charged with the kidnapping and other crimes and sentenced last year to 40 years in prison.
The lawsuit says that Huskins and Quinn suffered severe damage to their reputations from the police's false accusations of hoaxing, not to mention the mental and emotional anguish of having been kidnapped and raped and the local police announcing to the world that you made it all up. The city tried unsuccessfully last year to get the lawsuit dismissed, but have now settled, although an apology from the Vallejo police was never given after Muller's arrest or conviction and doesn't look to be forthcoming even after this settlement.
In March of 2015, Huskins was kidnapped from Quinn's house in Vallejo and reported missing. Police spent the next two days interrogating and pressuring Quinn, believing him to be responsible; but Huskins reappeared hundreds of miles away in Huntington Beach, claiming to have been kidnapped and raped and then let go by her captor. Police did not believe her story - the investigating detective stated that she "didn't act like a kidnapping victim" - and promptly labelled the entire incident a hoax, publicly repudiating both Huskins and Quinn in the press and on social media for fabricating the kidnapping story and wasting police resources. Three months later, while investigating a man named Matthew Muller in a string of home invasion robberies, police found cell phone video that Muller had taken of himself raping the bound and blindfolded Huskins. He was charged with the kidnapping and other crimes and sentenced last year to 40 years in prison.
The lawsuit says that Huskins and Quinn suffered severe damage to their reputations from the police's false accusations of hoaxing, not to mention the mental and emotional anguish of having been kidnapped and raped and the local police announcing to the world that you made it all up. The city tried unsuccessfully last year to get the lawsuit dismissed, but have now settled, although an apology from the Vallejo police was never given after Muller's arrest or conviction and doesn't look to be forthcoming even after this settlement.
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