Public Complaint No. 1711652131 - 1300359149

Shane D Carpenter

Oroville Police Department

2055 Lincoln Street

Oroville, California 95966

(530) 538-2448

http://www.cityofor…

Date of Offense

September 16, 2019

Complaint

Bias

Inadequate | Failure to Provide Service

Statement

Officer Carpenter was the main officer on a case involving me and my almost two year old child. My mother was speaking to him repeatedly trying to help the police find my daughter and I who had been falsely imprisoned. Upon Officer Carpenter finally being able to locate us along with a handful of other officers, he asked me what happened. I was scared, in shock, etc. I tried to tell him that I had been taken with my child and forced to do sexual acts on the person who took me all in front of my child. It was evident officer Carpenter did not believe me or maybe he was trained very poorly in sexual assault cases and how to handle the victims and the defendant. As of March 2024 the man who took my child and I and forced me to do sexual acts on him for hours on end was sentenced to 229 years in prison. There were two more victims this happened to after me in 2019 and if Officer Carpenter had better training in sexual assault situations, handled the situation without gender bias as well as just handled the situation better in general this horrible thing would have never happened to two more women after me.

Location

Oroville, CA, USA

39.5137752, -121.556359

California Public Records Act

§ 6250-6268

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