The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will not file charges against Los Angeles Kings’ defenseman Drew Doughty after a woman claimed that he sexually assaulted her in Hermosa Beach March 1. The district attorney’s office on Wednesday said there was insufficient evidence to make a case.
Hermosa Beach police Sgt. Bob Higgins last month said the woman accusing Doughty of sexual assault refused to make a phone call to Doughty in order to discuss the incident after she reported it to police.
“She didn’t want to cooperate with that, and that makes it very difficult in these kind of cases,” Higgins said.
Such a “pretext” phone call is recorded by police and potentially used as evidence in the case.
“It’s one of our most valuable tools, if not the most valuable, in these ‘he said-she said’ cases,” Higgins said. “Minus that, it makes it a very difficult case to prosecute.”
Hermosa Beach police investigated the incident and handed over their findings to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The 22-year-old defenseman from Ontario, Canada was the second overall pick by the Kings in 2008 and played in 20 games during the Kings’ Stanley Cup championship playoff run.
