Actor Devin Ratray, who plays Kevin McCallister’s (Macaulay Culkin) older brother in Home Alone, has been charged with rape. According to the CNN news network, the incident took place in 2017 in his apartment in New York.
The news bulletin learned that the victim, Lisa Smith, filed the indictment with the NYPD, who in turn spent time gathering evidence and interviewing potential witnesses, but later dismissed the case without taking any action against the accused. . So she decided to go public with the case.
Smith told CNN that she, her brother, and a friend went to Ratray’s Manhattan apartment one night in 2017. According to her, after consuming a drink Ratray gave her, she was unable to sit on a sofa until afternoon. later and was abused for a long time. period of time.
He said he had narrated the incident to several people, who confirmed his story on CNN. She filed a police report a few weeks later and was interviewed by a detective in November 2017. However, the police report, filed in January, indicated that the victim did not want to sue the attacker.
“Why should I have met the district attorney in the first place, years ago, if I wasn’t willing to file a complaint?” she told CNN. “This was all very upsetting to me,” she added. Smith also said she even sent them a sweater that she believed she was wearing that night for analysis, but she received no response.
According to Smith, a prosecutor of the New York Sex Crimes Unit recently apologized to her for the way her case was handled, but it is unclear whether the investigation is still ongoing or has already been. archived.
After being questioned about their handling of the case, the NYPD released an official generic statement, stating that it “takes cases of sexual assault and rape very seriously and insists that anyone who has been a victim file a police report so that we can conduct a thorough investigation and offer support and services to survivors. “
Devin Ratray denied the allegations. This, however, is not the first time he has been accused of violence. In December 2021, the actor was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in Oklahoma City. On that occasion he also pleaded not guilty. The assault case will be tried in October.
Most recently, Ratray reprized the role of Buzz McCallister in Disney +’s Homecoming. He was also seen in the movie “Kimi: Someone’s Listening” and in the series “Better Call Saul”.
Source: Terra
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