A PAIR of US cops accused of a brutal sex attack have said their alleged victim couldn’t have been raped because she posted “provocative selfies”.

Eddie Martins and Richard Hall from New York’s NYPD admitted having sex with a teenager while on-duty but deny raping her.

Two NYPD officers have been accused of raping a teenager in their custody Credit: Howard Harrison

Lawyers for the pair are now trying to discredit the woman by attacking her raunchy social-media posts, according to reports in the US.

In a letter to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, John Arlia and Mark Bederow reportedly referenced a “provocative selfie” shared online by the woman.

The lawyers also cited a tweet in which she “bragged about being followed by the ‘paparazzi’”.

And while arguing with a fellow Twitter user over her allegations against the cops, the letter claims she told them she hoped their mum would get raped.

The lawyers wrote: “This behaviour is unprecedented for a depressed victim of a vicious rape.”

The document alleges: “She has posted Instagram videos of herself using drugs and rapping about the case while joking about the millions that will be ‘in her bank account’.”

The 18-year-old is suing the city of New York for $50million (£38million).

The defence team urged prosecutors “to further investigate the defendant’s dubious claim before you ask the grand jury to return an indictment against Martins and Hall”.

The accuser has claimed the pair handcuffed her before forcing her to perform a sex act on them.

One of the officers then raped her while she was still cuffed, the teen alleges.

Martins and Hall claim the sex was consensual but were stripped of their guns and badges following the incident and were demoted on Wednesday.

​A spokesman for the Brooklyn DA’s Office said in a statement: “Without commenting on this ongoing investigation, defence counsel’s characterisation of how a rape victim should behave is inaccurate, inappropriate and demeaning.”

​The woman’s lawyer also said: “We’re dealing with a teenager here….and teenagers, they post a lot of things.

“This is her way of trying to cope. People have different methods of coping. She’s been helpless until now.”

“So it doesn’t matter what this teenager says on social media. It can never take away from what these monsters did to her.”

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