Fingerpointing over Facio
Barsanti told The Courier News Thursday that it may have been the Elgin Police Department that initially made the decision not to charge Facio in connection with the August 2007 sex assault on an 8-year-old girl inside her home. But a spokeswoman said Elgin police do not make recommendations to charge or not charge in cases normally handled by the CAC…
Barsanti said Facio voluntarily met with police immediately after the suspected attack took place, but investigators never asked prosecutors to authorize charges against the teen because probable cause could not be established…
Then, a few days later, a special assistant state’s attorney assigned to the CAC made the same decision not to immediately charge Facio, based on an interview with the victim, Barsanti explained. DNA evidence was collected from the girl, but the crime lab used by Kane County often is backlogged, officials said. (Elgin Courier 2/8/08)
So probable cause (the standard for making an arrest) can’t be established, apparently, without DNA evidence, and they use a backlog in the crime lab as an excuse to allow rapists to remain free for six months or more at a time, free to do it again, free to commit other crimes and free to flee to other jurisdictions. Welcome to Kane County.
So that was Barsanti’s response. I still haven’t seen Elgin Police Chief Womack’s response to the question of why Elgin police never linked the attempted abduction of the 13-year old girl to Facio even though it happened in the vicinity of the Facio home. Not only that, but how many suspects could there be matching his description (age-wise)? You would think he would have been the first person to get picked up for questioning.
And oh yeah, why is it that you can Google “DNA test”, and find dozens of companies that will will return a result to you in 24 hours, and our law enforcement takes six months to do the job?
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