DeLAND, Fla. – A DeLand police officer treated a victim of dating violence as if “she were in the wrong” and told her it was best if she left town after a violent encounter with her ex-boyfriend, according to an internal affairs investigation into the officer’s response to the October 2020 incident.
Officer Illya Kryshchenko, 25, was called to the police department lobby for a report of a battery on Oct. 6, 2020. Selena Robinette, a victim advocate for the department, had encountered the victim and her mother in the lobby as she was leaving for the day and set them up in an interview room so they could file a police report. [TRENDING: Thousands skipping 2nd vaccine dose | This K-9 is stopping child abuse.