Cop took naked photos of rape victim

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A detective who was fired for taking and keeping naked pictures of a rape victim ? the step-daughter of rocker David Bowie ? and of a woman who was busted for a traffic infraction is entitled to his pension, a state appeals court ruled yesterday.

Richard Vecchio was a 19-year veteran of the NYPD and a father of five when he was booted off the force after his colleagues found the creepy keepsakes.

One was a set of 15 nude photos of model Stacia Lipka ? the daughter of Bowie?s ex-wife Angela ? in the hospital after she?d been raped. The other was a picture of a bare breast of a female suspect with a piercing that he claimed he might need for evidence later on.

Vecchio was found not guilty of criminal charges in the Lipka case, but was convicted at a departmental trial and then fired.

Vecchio filed suit challenging the finding of wrongdoing and contending his penalty was too harsh. In a 4-1 ruling, the state Appellate Division upheld the picture charges, but tossed some of the lesser findings.

Vecchio had already cost the city plenty. The city paid Lipka an $80,000 settlement, and the woman who was arrested for the traffic infraction was paid $70,000.

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For the record;

while this case was a terrible misuse, it is also quite proper in many jurisdictions for photos to be taken at the hospital in visible and sometimes infrared and ultraviolet light as part of the rape exam to fully document the injuries and evidence on the skin, under the nails etc. Follow-up photos may also be taken to better document bruises as they develop.

These of course are done by either medical personnel trained to do them or the forensics team, and in my experience by females for a female victim.

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Pics or it didn't happen?

...to soon?

[DocM]

Pore like evidence or the slimeball might be able to worm his way out of a 20 year vacation entertaing Bubba.

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^ 'Bubba' may have bigger breasts. :laugh: