They at least caught this one relatively early. But still…

Evelyn was paraded before television cameras and spent two days at Rikers before prosecutors – in a nearly unprecedented move – rushed to a night judge to drop the charges.

The child, who also wrongly accused her father of rape, had no signs of physical assault, and initially identified her alleged assailant as bald and white.

Evelyn is black.

He said cops grilled him for hours, lying about fake DNA tests to try to force a confession, and offering to cut him a short prison term instead of life if he admitted guilt.

Thrown into a jail cell with seasoned criminals, Evelyn stood with his back to a wall all night, praying, as fellow inmates greeted each other and unabashedly used an open toilet.

He was strip-searched and left to sleep on a bare mattress in a filthy cell wearing only a “Pampers,” and paraded past inmates who screamed, “Hey, Pops! You raped my sister! I’m going to cut your throat! Don’t let me catch you in the shower! We gonna shank you!”

When he was finally freed, Evelyn said, a cursing Correction officer refused to give back $84 cash he had handed over, then released him with a $4 MetroCard.

He’s suing for $10 million. I hope he wins.

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