...Or maybe the accuser's mother in the Patrick Kane rape investigation didn't find the rape kit and evidence bag in her doorway after all.
Two days after the unidentified woman's mother claimed that someone left the rape kit, which is supposed to never break a specific chain of custody, in her doorway, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said the woman lied, according to ESPN.
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Sedita, who is the prosecutor overseeing the case, said that the rape kit has been in police custody the whole time and added claims to the contrary were part of a trick.
"Obviously there has been an effort to create a hoax," Sedita said in a press conference per ESPN. "I gotta figure out who was in on that, why they would do that and what it means vis-a-vis all the other evidence."
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Kane, a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Blackhawks, was accused by an anonymous woman in her 20s of sexual assault that allegedly occurred in his Hamburg, N.Y. home. The case has taken several twists and turns, but he has yet to be charged with a crime as the investigation continues.
The bag that the mother had was actually given to the her by a nurse at the hospital and was done so in order for her to put a shirt her daughter was wearing inside of it to hand to the authorities. The mother never did any of that, instead claiming it was the rape kit being returned to her door. The rape kit was never inside the bag, according to Sedita.
The victim's lawyer, Thomas Eoannou, gave a statement Wednesday originally claiming the authenticity of the rape kit and added, "The rape kit evidence bag has been tampered with." Upon learning more about it, he abruptly quit the case once the whole bag hoax was revealed, as Sedita put it, to be a "dog and pony show."
Sedita said what the woman did wasn't illegal, but he called it "immoral" and "bizarre."
As for the family, it plans to continue pursuing the case without Eoannou.
"We have every intention of pursuing this case to a just conclusion," the family's statement said per ESPN. "It must be emphasized that there exists no evidence or allegation that the accuser herself had any knowledge of the evidence bag until it was brought to Mr. Eoannou's office."
Kane has played for the Blackhawks during the preseason while the legal matter continues to play out, but he hasn't said much about the case.
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