New York Post

Cops’ rape accuser laughed afterward: police

- Lia Eustachewi­ch

The Brooklyn teen who has accused two former NYPD detectives of rape was “laughing and being vulgar” hours after the alleged incident, according to police notes obtained by The Post.

The young woman, who goes by the alias Anna Chambers, also allegedly told police investigat­ors at the time that she was never threatened by other officers to withdraw her claim — which her lawyer has insisted happened.

Lt. Frank Abbriano interviewe­d Chambers, then 18, at Maimonides Medical Center on Sept. 16, a few hours after she says she was handcuffed and raped by Detective Eddie Martins and forced to perform oral sex on his partner, Detective Richard Hall, in the back of a police van in Brooklyn.

Abbriano later told investigat­ors with the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau that Chambers’ demeanor “seemed off ” and that “her reaction was very different from other sexual-assault victims he has encountere­d in the past,” according to notes from the Dec. 14 meeting.

“The Lt. stated the CV [complainin­g victim] was laughing and being vulgar. She said she was taking narcotics, but he was not sure why the CV was acting in that manner,” the notes said.

Chambers’ lawyer, Michael David, has said a crew of cops — including a captain and deputy inspector — turned up at Maimonides at one point as part of a “high-level effort to bully” Chambers into not reporting the alleged rape.

But Chambers never told officials that she felt intimidate­d, according to the police-interview notes.

“Her claims to the media that she was pressured to drop the charges by a small army of police officers are patently false,” Mark Bederow, who represents Martins, told The Post.

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