Naperville Cops Let Woman Sexually Abuse Boy in Back of Squad Car: Lawsuit

Two Naperville police officers allowed a woman to climb into the back seat of a squad car with a child and stood by while she sexually abused him, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.

The lawsuit, filed by attorney Miles Dore on behalf of the child, lists two unidentified police officers, the City of Naperville and the Naperville resident as defendants. Dore declined to give his client’s age, saying only that he is a minor.

On Halloween 2014, the boy, who was in foster care, and an unspecified number of his friends went to the Westbrook Circle home of his birth mother, Dore said. The mother was in the process of moving out and the home was vacant, he said.

Someone called the police and Dore’s client, identified only as “John Doe” in the lawsuit, was allegedly detained as he was leaving the home. His friends were allowed to leave, the suit said, but Doe was placed in the back of a squad car while police waited for his foster mother to arrive.

For reasons neither the lawsuit nor Dore can explain, the officers then allegedly allowed the defendent, who lives on Westbrook Circle, according to a subpoena, to get into the squad car with the child.

The defendent, "did then and there begin to interact with the minor plaintiff in a manner which was inappropriate and sexual in nature in that she did begin kissing (him) upon and about his face and neck; hugging him inappropriately; and touching and rubbing him upon his inner thigh and crotch area in his genital region above his clothing; and taking ‘selfie’ photographs of herself and the minor plaintiff with her cell phone device,” the suit said.

The “sexual conduct and touching and the photographing … was not invited or welcomed” by the minor, according to the lawsuit.

The two police officers were also in the squad car while all of this was going on, the lawsuit said.

Dore said he was told of a police department video of the incident. He said he requested both the video and police reports under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but was denied. He said the police claimed the matter remained under investigation.

Dore said an unidentified Will County assistant state’s attorney told his client’s mother that the matter is actually closed and there will be no criminal charges. He said he got no response when he called the state’s attorney’s office himself.