Washington - A federal judge is being asked to order the city of Spokane to participate in a court-supervised settlement of a civil rights lawsuit brought by a teenage girl who claims she was raped and photographed by an on-duty firefighter in a North Side firehouse. The girl, who was 16 at the time of the incident, is seeking $6 million in damages after initially filing a $1 million claim that was rejected by the city. The girl's attorney, J. Scott Miller, filed the civil rights damages suit in U.S. District Court in December 2006. The suit alleges the teenager was sexually assaulted at a fire station in northwest Spokane in February 2006 by firefighter Daniel W. Ross, who used a digital camera to take photos of the encounter. The 35-year-old firefighter was fired a month later. When the incident was reported to police as a...
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