A Missouri woman who was raped in the same bed where her two-year-old daughter was sleeping says police openly doubted her story when she sought help.
It wasn't until eight months later that Taylor Hirth would finally be taken seriously - when DNA evidence linked her attack to two assailants arrested for the abduction and sexual assault of a female sheriff's deputy from Johnson County, Kansas.
Hirth, of Independence, Missouri, took the stand during a hearing Thursday in which one of the men, married 26-year-old William Luth, pleaded guilty to raping her at her home in February 2016.
'[Luth is] here because I got a rape kit done, and another woman got a rape kit done, and Johnson County detectives took a rape seriously, and forensic scientists did their job,' she said.
'Not because of any fantastic investigative work by the Independence beat cops who clearly received zero training in the best practices of dealing with sexual trauma victims, and who made it abundantly clear that they were pretty sure I was just being dramatic.'
She said she felt as though the blame was being placed on her as investigators probed her about her past sexual partners and pored over her social media history and phone contacts.
'They made me feel insane,' Hirth told the court.
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Taylor Hirth was raped by two men in the same bed where her two-year-old daughter was sleeping at her home in Independence, Missouri, in February 2016. Speaking at a sentencing hearing for one of her assailants on Thursday, Hirth (above) said that the police investigating her claims had made it 'abundantly clear' that they didn't believe her
Eight months after the Missouri attack, suspects William Luth (left) and Brady Newman-Caddell (right) were arrested for the abduction and rape of a female sheriff's deputy in Olathe, Kansas, in October 2016. DNA evidence linked the two men, 26 and 23, to Hirth's rape
Hirth spent months believing that the strangers who brutally raped her in her bed next to her toddler would never be brought to justice.
No suspects were identified in that attack until Luth and Brady Newman-Caddell, 23, were arrested for assaulting the sheriff's deputy in her car when she arrived at work on October 2016 in Olathe. The 22-year-old victim's name has been withheld.
DNA evidence from that case was linked to a rape kit taken after the Missouri attack.
Hirth said she became physically ill when she learned her assailant had raped another woman.
'All I could do was throw up, and go to my friend’s house and cry, my heart broke,' she told the court. 'I owed this woman so much gratitude for being strong enough to endure what they had done, and to have the courage to seek justice.
'Without her, I wouldn’t be here facing William Luth today.'
The apartment complex where Hirth was brutually raped in her bed by two strangers in February 2016 is shown above. Hirth said that investigators made her feel like she was to blame for the attack by questioning her sexual history and poring over her social media
The mother said she has received no apology or acknowledgement from the police since her account was proven true.
'They’ve said nothing to me,' she said. 'At least with him [Luth] I get an admission of guilt, even if I don’t get an apology. Proof I was telling the truth. Proof I’m not crazy.'
DailyMail.com typically does not name victims of sexual assault, but in this case Hirth identified herself and gave a heartfelt statement addressing Luth after his sentencing Thursday.
'I stand here unbroken, you will not break me,' she said, reading off a piece of paper. 'These years fighting for justice have not broken me. The women who come here, standing where I stand now, met by men who like you thought they could to as they wish with our bodies and our lives, these women will not be broken.
'This is what justice looks like. It's cold and it's perfect but it's as real as the bars you'll waste the best years of your life behind.'
DailyMail.com typically does not name victims of sexual assault, but in this case Hirth identified herself and gave a heartfelt statement addressing Luth after his sentencing
Both Luth and Newman-Caddell pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping the deputy.
Luth was sentenced to 41 years in prison in that case and 30 years for the Missouri attack, to be served at the same time.
Newman-Caddell was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in the Johnson County case, but the hearing was postponed when he told the judge he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea.
The charges against him in the Missouri case are still pending.
Luth was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the Missouri rape on Thursday in Independence. He will serve that sentence at the same time as he serves 41 years for raping the deputy
Luth is seen being led out of the courtroom following his sentencing on Thursday
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It wasn’t until eight months later that Taylor Hirth would finally be taken seriously – when DNA evidence linked her attack to two ...
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