Atlanta police are investigating a sexual assault at Opera nightclub after video of the incident was posted on Facebook.
Officer Jarius Daugherty said the department began receiving calls from people who had seen the assault on a Facebook Live video early Sunday morning. The Atlanta Police Department has opened an investigation into the incident at the club on Crescent Avenue in Midtown.
The video “appears to show a woman being sexually assaulted in a local nightclub,” Daugherty told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Police have not released details on the alleged assault, but the woman filed a police report on the crime. It is the policy of the AJC to not name victims of sexual crimes.
According to Channel 2 Action News, the victim was celebrating her birthday Saturday at the popular Midtown nightclub when she was sexually assaulted.