COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Multiple Colorado Springs police officers, Police Chief Adrian Vasquez, and the City of Colorado Springs are facing a federal lawsuit accusing two officers of ignoring sexual assault claims made by a Colorado Springs woman.

On July 18, 2021 Rebecca Varney did not believe calling 911 to report alleged domestic and sexual abuse at the hands of her ex-husband would result in her being charged with misdemeanor harassment and violation of a protection order. However, that's exactly what happened.

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Varney's attorney's, Laura Wolf and Erin Vanek, tell 13 Investigates they reached out to CSPD and attorney's for the City of Colorado Springs before ever filing a lawsuit. However, they say they never received a response to their attempts to resolve it outside of court.

"Our goal is always to try to reach some type of resolution that calls for systemic change, some type of training policy changes," Wolf said. "We didn't receive a response. At one point, we actually found out that one of our emails had been deleted while unread, and only after that we started receiving responses."

Wolf expressed frustration with CSPD's response to their officers engaging in "misconduct," which was sustained through the Internal Affiars Investigation. She wishes the officers were further trained on ways to mandatorily report allegations of sexual abuse.

"There was no actual repercussions from the perspective of increased training, increasing the discipline. Both officers essentially walked away. My guess feeling as though they can engage in a similar way again and have nothing happen," Wolf said.

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