Ohio woman raped after bus driver boots her onto street at 1 a.m. over a broken flip-flop

[RandySF]

An Ohio woman who was raped over the weekend said that she was kicked off of a bus because the flip-flop she was wearing had broken.

According to Ohio State University newspaper The Lantern, the woman said that she had taken off her flip-flops after one of them broke early Saturday morning, and the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) bus driver informed her that she was in violation of the rules.

“The bus driver said, ‘Hey, you have to have shoes on,’ so she got off to try and find a cheap pair of flip-flops,” detective James Ashenhurst explained.

A press release from the Columbus Police Department (CPD) stated that three bike patrol officers spotted Randy Graham Jr., a homeless man, sexually assaulting the woman in a parking garage at around 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/11/ohio-woman-raped-after-bus-driver-boots-her-onto-street-at-1-a-m-over-a-broken-flip-flop/

[R B Garr]

1. Dang, if it came to that, I'd probably pitch a fit and let the cops come

to the bus to sort the whole thing out rather than getting out in the streets at 1:00 a.m. How horrible.