The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed an unusual civil rights case in which the plaintiff alleges that several law enforcement officials — including the Brown County District Attorney — failed to protect her from a predator and used her as “sexual bait” to strengthen their prosecutorial case.
The 5th Circuit’s August 8th ruling in N.W. v. John Nick Hanna et al. affirms a trial court ruling dismissing the case for failure to state a claim because none of the defendants in the case were “deliberately indifferent” to her plight, but rather were “acting on facts and investigating” the man who was eventually arrested and convicted of sexual assault of a child and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
