Investigators bagged her ripped shirt and underwear as evidence. They told her they'd run DNA tests.
Investigators took her back to her apartment, which was in shambles. The TV and her cell phone were smashed. The mattress was flipped over and dresser drawers were pulled out, both Naomi and Raheem said.
She was too afraid to stay there. She called a girlfriend and asked if she could spend the night, she said.
Two days later, Naomi said, she was walking near her apartment when two uniformed officers in a patrol car stopped her. They handcuffed her, threw her in the back of the cruiser and warned her to recant her account of what happened Oct. 16.
Then they let her go. One officer told her, " 'You'll be seeing me around,' " she said.
Terrified, she called her mom from a pay phone and together they went to the 15th Police District in the Northeast.
"But I didn't have a name. They told me they had thousands of police officers," she said.
She and her mother left, frustrated and angry. She moved from the apartment.
Then the phone calls started.
Naomi's phone rang at all hours from "restricted" or "unavailable" numbers.
She said the callers said things like, Drop it. . . . Don't say nothing. . . . We know where you're at. . . . We'll find you.
She and her mother changed their phone numbers several times, she said.
Still, the calls kept coming.
Naomi said she suspected the callers were police officers.
She became afraid to leave home.
Then sometime around Thanksgiving, two investigators came to her mom's South Jersey house. Naomi happened to be there. Her mother, through relatives, declined to be interviewed for this article.
The investigators sat the women down and told them they had some evidence linking an officer to the alleged assault, Naomi said.
They asked her to consider pressing criminal charges, she said.
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