TEEN-SEX COPS’ SMEAR ATTEMPT
Attack her cred to avoid rape rap
The NYPD cops who admittedly had sex with a teen while on duty are attacking her “severe credibility problems” in a last-ditch bid to avoid charges they raped her in a police van, The Post has learned.
In a letter to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, lawyers for cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall target the 18-year-old’s raunchy social-media posts and her $50 million claim against the city that they say inspired her to rap online under the name “Fi5ty Milli.”
Defense lawyers John Arlia and Mark Bederow cite a “provocative ‘selfie’ ” the teen posted on Instagram after the alleged Sept. 15 attack and a tweet in which she “bragged about being followed by the ‘paparazzi’ ” after an Oct. 13 meeting with prosecutors.
And the letter says that while arguing this week with a fellow Twitter user over her sexual-assault allegations, she wrote, “Stop clockin my s- -t u loser, I hope ya mommy gets gang raped gangsta 100%.”
“This behavior is unprecedented for a depressed victim of a vicious rape,” the lawyers write.
The Thursday letter obtained by The Post also says the teen has “rebranded herself as a wannabe rapper named ‘Fi5ty Milli,’ an obvious reference to her lawsuit.
“She has posted Instagram videos of herself using drugs and rapping in her ‘Fi5ty Milli’ persona about the case while joking about the millions that will be ‘in her bank account,’ ” the letter says.
The lawyers urge prosecutors “to further investigate” her “dubious claim before you ask the grand jury to return an indictment.”
The teen has said that one cop raped her and that both forced her to perform oral sex on them while she was handcuffed in a police van. She says they busted her for carrying prescription pills in Coney Island’s Calvert Vaux Park.
The cops — whose DNA was found in “rape kit” tests performed on the teen — claim the sex was consensual.
They were stripped of their guns and badges after the incident and were each demoted from detective to patrol officer on Wednesday.
State law prevents jailers from claiming they had consensual sex with prisoners under their control, but no such provision covers cops and suspects under arrest.
“She’ll have to credibly paint a picture of a predatory attack on her . . . because they’re saying she consented,” said ex-cop Eugene O’Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
O’Donnell also said that the exclusion of police from the rule barring jailers from claiming consent was “an obvious omission that’s likely to be corrected,” noting, “Custody is custody.”
The NYPD Patrol Guide doesn’t explicitly ban sex on duty, but it is considered “conduct unbecoming a police officer,” law-enforcement sources said.
A Brooklyn DA spokesman said, “Defense counsel’s characterization of how a rape victim should behave is inaccurate, inappropriate and demeaning.”
The accuser’s lawyer, Michael David, said, “We’re dealing with a teenager here . . . and teenagers, they post a lot of things.
“This is her way of trying to cope. People have different methods of coping. She’s been helpless until now,” he added. “So it doesn’t matter what this teenager says on social media. It can never take away from what these monsters did to her.”
She has posted Instagram videos of herself using drugs and rapping . . . about the case while joking about the millions that will be ‘in her bank account.’ Lawyers for cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall, listing the “credibility problems” of an 18-yearold woman who is accusing the officers of raping her