Police go to the wrong house… assault 12-year-old girl

Sometimes disgust and inaudible screams of disbelief is all one can muster:

It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn’s home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on.

As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.”

Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.” One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.

As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers…

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… The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn’s attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls.

After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.

Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond’s school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home.

Errors happen. Shit happens… “Collateral damage” happens… I know… But, how? How does a twelve year old girl, or anyone for that matter, recover after something like this?

I wish the men that did this an eternity of sleepless nights, tormented by the horror of their actions, and the knowledge that, in the nightmares of a forever twelve year old girl, they’ll be remembered as monsters.