Local Man: Cops Hit on my Wife

By Kevin Robinson in News on Mar 27, 2008 3:00PM

Just when it seemed like the CPD was getting its act together (atcha, J-Fed!), a local man who was acquitted of murder is now suing the police, alleging that they tried to beat a confession out him, while also soliciting his wife for sex.

Robinson was arrested in September 2004 on a domestic battery charge, and over the course of three days he was allegedly beaten by detective Jack Boock in an attempt to force him to confess to killing three-year-old Diamonte Williams. "They handcuffed me to a wall and beat me with a TV antenna," Robinson told the Tribune. "Kicked me, stomped me, spit on me. Did that for like three days, from Sunday to Tuesday. I was thinking, why would they do this?" he said. "It's not like I'm a troublemaker, I've got no criminal record. Why pick on me?" (Read the comments on this article for an extra special treat!)

The lawsuit also claims that while Robinson was being held in Cook County jail awaiting trial, a second detective, Vincent Humphrey, was soliciting his wife for sex. Phone records show that Humphrey, who claimed that he heard Robinson confess to the murder, called Mrs. Robinson 17 times, sometimes in the middle of the night. "After he met her, he decided that he was going to continue to call her and to pursue her and to have a sexual relationship with her," said Andre Grant, Robinson's attorney, told ABC7. According to Grant, Humphrey asked her what her bra and pantie sizes are, offered her an apartment in his building, a job in a restaurant, and requested oral sex.

Robinson was acquitted of the murder last October in Cook County court, and Judge Vincent Gaughan ruled that Humprey was "hitting on Mrs. Robinson at the time that he's the one saying that her husband made an oral confession." In spite of the judge's ruling, and a complaint filed with the police department three years ago, Humphrey has yet to be disciplined. "There are many officers who have been relieved of powers that the media and the public doesn't even know about... [s]ince Superintendent Weis has taken the helm," Monique Bond, police spokeswoman told ABC7.

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