A 19-year-old woman who claims she was raped by two NYPD detectives in the back of their van after being arrested has described for the first time how nine others visited her in hospital to try to bully her out of reporting them.
Anna Chambers was 18 when she was arrested in Brooklyn on September 15 after being found smoking marijuana in her car with two male friends.
NYPD detectives Eddie Martins, 33, and Richard Hall, 37, took her into their police van after finding her with the drugs.
She claims that once she was in the van, they forced her to perform oral sex on them while handcuffed and then took turns raping her then let her go.
The men have been charged with a string of offenses including rape and aware awaiting their next court date. They admit engaging in sexual activity but say the sex was consensual.
Anna Chambers, 19, has described how nine NYPD officers visited her in hospital after she reported being raped by their colleagues. She says they tried to talk her out of pursuing pressing charges against the men
Detectives Eddie Martins, 33, and Richard Hall, 37, have been charged with raping the woman. They are pictured leaving Brooklyn Supreme Court earlier this month
After the alleged attack, Chambers went to Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn to be tested with a rape kit.
It is there that she says nine other officers arrived and tried to bully her out of reporting their colleagues’ alleged crime.
On Saturday, she described their visit for the first time in her own words.
‘At least nine officers showed up to the hospital trying to intimidate me and my mom.
‘I was sitting in the room by myself . . . They were pressing me, saying things like, “Oh, this isn’t the first time you’re having an encounter with the police.”
‘I was bawling my eyes out. The way they were speaking with me was so rude and aggressive,’ she told The New York Post.
Chambers says the men spoke in her native Russian to try to build a rapport with her and that they claimed Martins and Hall were not police officers.
Days later, she claims she described the hospital visit to the Internal Affairs Bureau
Chambers was receiving treatment at the Maimonides Medical Center in New York the day of the alleged rape when she says nine NYPD officer showed up to talk with her
Similar details of the alleged visit were previously given by her lawyer, Michael David, and her mother.
‘He kept saying to Anna and her mom, “How do you know they were real cops?”‘ David said earlier this week.
Chambers, who was 18 at the time, said the cops spoke ‘aggressively’ towards her
The NYPD has not commented on the visit but it confirmed earlier this week that an investigation has been launched. No other officers have yet been charged.
Neither Martins nor Hall is alleged to have been in the hospital room.
Lawyers acting on their behalf however cast doubt on Chambers’ version of events and said her story had changed.
The two cops were scorned for pointing out in their attempts to defend themselves that the young woman had posted provocative photographs on social media.
They included reference to the photographs and to the fact she had filed a $50million lawsuit against in the city in a letter to prosecutors which was filed before a grand jury indicted them on 50 different charges.
On Saturday, in response to her description of the visit, Mark Bederow, Martin’s lawyer, said there was nothing to prove her account.
‘Nothing corroborates the sensational allegations made by a plaintiff’s lawyer more than two months after the incident,’ he said.
Martins and Hall both posted bail earlier this month and are awaiting their next court date which has been set for January 2018.
The woman says the other NYPD cops said neither Martins (above with his lawyer) nor Hall was even a cop
Both of the men posted bail and are awaiting their next court date. They say they had sex with Chambers but that it was consensual
The men deny the charges against them. They quit the force soon after surrendering to police earlier this month.
Chambers claims that the men told her they were ‘freaks’ after arresting her on September 15.
She says they asked her what she would do to get out of the drug charges before launching their sexual attack.
Prosecutors say that they instructed her to phone the two men she had been with in the car to tell them not to follow their police van after they arrested her.
Afterwards, the men released her without charge.
The rape kit which was used at the hospital where she claims the other officers visited her detected traces of the two men’s DNA. If convicted, the men face 25 years in prison each.
David, Chamber’s lawyer, previously said the entire ordeal has made her lose faith in law enforcement.
‘She’s embarrassed. She’s very depressed over this. Her whole life had changed after this experience. She’s afraid of the police, and she really wants justice to be served,’ he said.
Chambers’ lawyer said the entire ordeal has made her lose faith in the police