Why didn Tawana cooperate with law enforcement officials?
Initially, Tawana did cooperate with law enforcement officials. Two days after she was released from the hospital, a female agent of the FBI, the state police, the local police and the district attorney’s office interviewed Tawana at length which comprised more than twelve pages of a deposition. An attorney from the NAACP was also present at her home on November 30. Eleven years later, it was discovered that the FBI agent was Pagones’ girlfriend. Soon afterwards, Alton Maddox retained a female gynecologist in Orange County, New York who was unknown to him to examine Tawana. She ordered Tawana’s immediate hospitalization at the Westchester County Medical Center of which medical records documented that Tawana had been raped. Abrams later deleted the rape conclusion from the medical record.
