article_snippet.sent: his mentally-disabled niece Sabrina Morrison rape was among more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office over a three-year period ending in 2007.
article_snippet.sent: That slipped through the cracks, we did due diligence after the fact that we found out, and we acted on it,' Sheriff Joe Arpaio explained at a Wednesday press conference.
article_snippet.sent: a lawsuit against the department alleged that the subsequent attacks on the girl could have been avoided if Arpaio's office arrested the suspect after the suspect first abused the girl in March 2007. '
article_snippet.sent: An eighth-grader could have solved the case,' attorney Charles Surrano said. '
article_snippet.sent: We're talking about old history, but sometimes you learn from old history,' Arpaio said of the bungled cases. '
article_snippet.sent: Hot water: the girl rape was among more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio (pictured) over a three-year period ending in 2007 .
article_snippet.sent: A former supervisor says A former supervisor investigators were pulled away from time to time to help with training efforts and Arpaio's immigrant-smuggling squad.
highlights_snippet.sent: It is just one of 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office over a three-year period .