A California woman who was kidnapped and held for two days is suing police, who initially deemed her abduction a hoax.
Attorneys for Denise Huskins say in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento that Vallejo police destroyed Huskins' and her boyfriend's reputations through a campaign of disparagement that included public statements accusing them of faking the kidnapping. The suit accuses police of defamation and infliction of emotional distress and seeks unspecified damages.
It names the City of Vallejo and two police officers as defendants.
Calls to police and the city attorney's office were not immediately returned.
Federal prosecutors subsequently charged Matthew Muller - a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney - with kidnapping Huskins from her Vallejo home last March.
Muller has pleaded not guilty.
