Only the accuser and Patrick Kane know what happened.
When you are deciding who you want to believe, all you can do is take the evidence that is out there and make an informed decision.
These are the only facts we know.
Kane invited the accuser back to his home after meeting her at a club. She says he raped her when they were alone in a room.
There was no DNA found in her undergarments or genital area. The accuser’s lawyer accused someone of tampering with the rape kit, but in reality that was set up by the accuser’s mother to make Kane and the prosecution look bad.
Then, during a Sept. 25 news conference, Sedita said that his office had determined that the alleged victim’s mother took part in a “hoax” to make it look like police were doing a sloppy job of handling evidence from the case. Sedita said the woman made a false claim that physical evidence from the probe – a purported rape kit evidence bag – had been left at the home of the alleged victim’s mother.
Sedita said investigators were attempting to determine whether the alleged victim herself was involved in the hoax, but he has never said publicly what determination was made. He declined to comment on it, or any aspect of the case, on Monday.
The police from that point on started to wonder if the accuser had not been telling the truth throughout the investigation.
Today the accuser has decided she doesn’t want to talk to the police anymore and wants the case dropped altogether.
So, those are the facts. Kane likely won’t be charged, but his reputation has been dragged through the mud, without any evidence showing he did anything wrong.
That is unfortunate.