AUSTIN, Texas - A sexual assault survivor said she was told the Austin Police Department did not verify registered sex offenders’ information for seven years.

Survivor shares her story

The backstory:

In 1999, Tressa Cooper survived a brutal sexual assault.

"I was at a work event, a co-worker who was a total stranger to me drugged me at the event, carried me out of a bathroom where I was taken to an apartment. I was brutally sexually assaulted for hours and following that attack, I was nearly strangled to death," Cooper said.

The man who did it, spent more than a decade in prison and was put on the lifetime sex offender registry. Every year he is required to take a picture, provide his address and employment, and it is posted online.

"When your government is putting out information,

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