Woman Who Says Prosecutor Helped Cover Up Rape Has Suit Blocked

A woman alleging she was raped by a relative, an assistant warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, doesn’t have standing to sue a district attorney who worked with the suspected attacker to help him avoid prosecution, the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Priscilla Lefebure alleges that she was sexually assaulted “on multiple occasions” by Barrett Boeker on the grounds of the penitentiary, in a residence provided to the assistant warden by the state. She alleges that Boeker, the husband of her cousin, used his connections with Samuel D. D’Aquilla, the district attorney for Louisiana’s 20th Judicial District, to convince authorities not ...