NIKKI YOVINO, White & Convicted For Her False Accusations Against 2 Blacks-Is Being Sued For a False Rape Claim By Different Black Male
A jury found a local Bridgeport man not guilty of raping Nikki Yovino. Alfonso Reid claims in a lawsuit filed in Superior Court that both the young woman and Sacred Heart University officials made false and misleading statements about him that ruined his reputation and caused him injury. “Mr. Reid was incarcerated for approximately 10 months while he waited for a trial for a crime that he didn’t commit,” said his lawyer, DeVaughn Ward. While Ward said he is “not ready” to claim that the allegations against Reid were racially motivated, he said that Sacred Heart has a “track record” for supporting allegations made by white female students against African-American men. “It’s an extraordinary case. A lot of the allegations levied were proven not to be true.”
Last summer, former Sacred Heart student Nikki Yovino was convicted of making a false rape complaint against two black football players at the university. The two men are suing the university claiming they were forced to leave the school because of Yovino’s complaint against them. And in January 2017, Sacred Heart University officials issued a letter of apology along with an undisclosed financial settlement to Gary Douglas of Bridgeport for misidentifying him in leaflets issued around campus as being the man responsible for the crime Reid was eventually arrested for. “Sacred Heart has some culpability in this case,” Ward said.
ctpost.com– Daniel Tepfer
