After being accused of—but not charged with—raping an unidentified young woman in her Manhattan office, Greg Kelly—son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and co-host of a"Good Day New York"—has been laying low. Kelly has denied the allegation through his attorney and not spoken publicly, but behind the scenes, sources have been talking to the press. Yesterday it was revealed that the woman had an abortion after her boozy encounter with Kelly, and now some are saying the Manhattan DA has doubts about the case. Of course, it goes without saying that all these unidentified sources talking to the tabloids may be people inside the NYPD with an interest in protecting the Commissioner's son. Update, 1/28: Now it's reported that the accuser's brother works for the NYPD.
“It sounds like a bunch of BS," one unidentified source tells the Post. Investigators are reportedly troubled by the amount of time it took the woman, a paralegal, to report the alleged rape, and sources are telling the tabloids the communication between her and Kelly after the incident also seems fishy. "You don’t communicate with someone who raped you," another "law-enforcement source" tells the Post. And these sources say the woman does not remember key details about her encounter with Kelly in the office.
The woman met Kelly, who is single, on the street in early October, and the two exchanged numbers and arranged to meet for drinks on October 8th. After drinks, sources say they went to her office because her boyfriend was home. After that night, they stayed in touch, and sources tell the Daily News Kelly Kelly has text messages from the woman of a "flirtatious" nature. The source says they also exchanged texts about "doing it again."
It's unclear whether the woman told Kelly she was pregnant, but she reportedly told investigators she knew the child was Kelly's because she was not having sex with her boyfriend at the time—and because he had a vasectomy. According to one account, he found out about her contact with Kelly after seeing one of their emails, and then confronted Ray Kelly at a public event, telling the Commissioner that his son ruined his girlfriend's life.
“Commissioner Kelly asked him to explain, and the man said he didn’t want to discuss it there, so the commissioner told him to put it in writing and send it to him," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells the Post. Mayor Bloomberg told reporters yesterday that he thinks the Commissioner handled the incident appropriately. "I suspect that what happens to Ray Kelly happens to me all the time," Bloomberg said. "People are always, while you're walking through a crowd, saying things. When you get to be my age, you can't hear most of them. So half the time I have no idea what they're talking about, and the answer is: If you have a complaint to write it, and we take every complaint seriously."
Sources (yes, more "sources"!) tell the News the woman is 30 years old and works for a law firm around Wall St. She "graduated from a prestigious Manhattan private school and is the daughter of a prominent lawyer." People who saw her leave the law offices later said she did not appear upset, sources tell the Post. Asked for comment, retired sex crimes prosecutor Linda A. Fairstein says rape accusations that involve alcoholic are "as common as they are difficult to prove." She tells the Times, "Alcohol is a horribly influential factor in these cases when it’s voluntarily ingested. When a victim tells you she can’t remember what happened, it’s very hard to make a case."
Fairstein also told the Daily News that she's spoken to sources involved in the investigation, "This woman doesn't come close to establishing her physical helplessness... I haven't heard anybody establish the elements of a crime."
