Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita
A bag that allegedly contained evidence from the rape investigation into NHL star Patrick Kane what was left outside the victim’s mother’s front door was falsified and planted by the mother, the District Attorney in Eerie County, New York said Friday.
On Wednesday, the alleged victim’s attorney, Thomas Eoannou, held a news conference saying a brown bag containing evidence – including his client’s rape kit – had been ripped open and left on her mother’s doorstep.
Eoannou indicated that the chain of custody of the rape kit, which is essential to preserving admissibility of evidence in a trial, had been broken with the evidence in his client’s case, and a “good samaritan” had delivered it to the mother’s home.