I want to know if I can sue the city or the county for not pursuing the charges against the 3 boys who raped me. The Sheriff was a woman and told me that if I pursued charges, I would be arrested for statutory rape as one of the boys would claim that I had sex with him previously. And she would be correct. He was 16 and I was 24. I didn't know he was 16 tho. I was drugged that night and the one who drugged me also stole all my money. There was a rape kit done in a Vancouver hospital. I went out with a rape councilor to talk to the police. The sheriff then threated to throw me in jail if I pursued charges. Said she knows the boys I was accusing and they would NEVER do anything like that so it was a waste of my time pursuing this. So I just left and have lived with this for 26 years now.