The City of Melbourne has agreed to pay $95,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused police of mishandling the investigation into her 1990 rape when she was a child, records obtained by News 6 show.

The City of Melbourne has settled a negligence lawsuit filed by a woman who claims police botched an investigation into her 1990 rape when she was a child, News 6 has learned.

A judge rules that a Brevard County woman who claims police mishandled a sexual battery investigation after she was raped as a child in 1990 can pursue a negligence lawsuit against the City of Melbourne.

A Brevard County woman who was raped as a child in 1990 will be allowed to refile a negligence lawsuit against the City of Melbourne after a judge agreed with the city’s request to dismiss her original complaint.

A Brevard County woman who was raped as a child in 1990 has filed a negligence lawsuit against the city of Melbourne that accuses the city’s police department of mishandling the decades-old sexual battery investigation.

Evidence related to the 1990 rape of an 11-year-old girl was disposed by the Melbourne Police Department sometime over the past three decades, a newly released audit reveals, but the agency cannot determine when or why it was destroyed or who authorized it.