C.Kimberly Toms was a victim of a multitude of crimes enacted by an acquaintance, a serial offending supervisory special agent for the U.S. government. In attempting to report these crimes, she encountered shocking negligence in the Justice System. These secondary acts were at the hands of police officers, state courts and so-called “victim advocacy,” in addition to the highest law enforcement agencies in the land. Now, she speaks out as a triumphant survivor who continues to tell the secrets so many tried to keep quiet, all in the effort to influence positive change.
As part of her career, Kimberly has dedicated more than 25 years of her life to multiple forms of communications, including a background in public relations, content publishing and digital marketing. During her 12 years spent focused on the pursuit of justice against a serial offending supervisory special agent, Kimberly used her voice and digital marketing capabilities across all available channels with creativity and tenacity to achieve personal and professional goals. Today, she facilitates open and logical conversations about reform in policing, the justice system and victim relations in a multitude of forums.
This interview clip (right) was the first time Kimberly vocalized the realities of her attempts to get law enforcement help to stop the crimes against her. It reflects the difficulties women face in trying to report sexual assault and other crimes, particularly when the offender is empowered like this active Supervisory Special Agent for the US Department of State, once a city police officer in the state of Wisconsin.
If a federal agent had your life in a chokehold, using his badge and gun to cover up the crimes he committed against you and “double digits” of other women, how would you extricate yourself safely from that situation? Would you survive?
Faced with this struggle after two sexual assaults, financial extortion, daily threats, computer hacking, image-based exploitation, intense stalking and attempted murder, Kimberly pulled out every digital marketing communications skill she had to ensure her future. When nine officers in five states failed in their duty to help her pursue safety and justice, Kimberly did not buckle. Then, as federal agencies hid her under a heavy rug, and now, as justice continues to show it leans to the offender’s favor with negligence, she still stands in defiance with an unwavering voice. This tenacity, strength and optimism drive all that Kimberly does.
In her journey, C.KT has engaged with federal agencies, the U.S. Attorney General’s office, senators, governors, mayors, district attorneys, magistrates, federal law enforcement, city law enforcement and local agencies. Her media experience includes television commercials, film, talk radio, podcasts and mainstream publications.
Kimberly can also customize the subject focus to suit your organization’s needs.
In September 2013, Kimberly was violently raped by a Supervisory Special Agent for the U.S. Department of State. As she sought help from police officers in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa, she was rejected by these law enforcement personnel. They did not want to involve themselves in a situation with an empowered individual. As a result, Kimberly had to survive the agent’s efforts to keep his crimes quiet. He used frightening control tactics he learned through his occasional work with a human trafficking arm of Homeland Security/ICE. As he made almost daily death threats, extorted money, acquired “blackmail” photos, set up video feeds as part of image-based sexual assault, threatened to use his badge to have her fired from her employment, and demanded signed documentation to support his “innocence,” Kimberly set forth plans to flee his region of the country. To instill more fear and reassert his control in January 2014, the agent raped Kimberly again.
Her offender repeatedly threatened, “There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide…the whole U.S. is my jurisdiction.” So, Kimberly planned to flee to a random small town across the country where she knew no one and could live in obscurity. When the federal agent suspected this plan, he set her up to murder her. Kimberly outwitted him and ran to North Carolina to live in hiding while pursuing justice.
That pursuit took six years and left her vulnerable to the agent’s intense stalking, multi-car chases involving another presumed law enforcement offender, and other dangers without any police support.
During this period, Kimberly was rejected by another negligent police agency in Chesapeake, Virginia. This last rejection pushed her to call every phone extension she could at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. Her quest for that agency’s Office of Special Investigations led to a special agent who listened and stepped up to help her. In turn, this agent’s actions led to a four-year federal Joint Task Force investigation, the discovery of “double digits” of other victims, the intervention of two state senators, and an eventual state investigation when her offender raped another woman twice in Wisconsin in 2017. Finally, in 2020 and against the odds (only 2% of rape cases bring a guilty verdict), Kimberly’s offender was found guilty and was sent to jail. Meanwhile, her identity was made public in court documents against protective laws, when the court reporter digitally published her full name.
One expects that conviction, sentencing and incarceration bring some peace to survivors. However, in February 2024, Kimberly was made aware that the Wisconsin state court did not have possession of the court transcripts for the trial. With the transcripts lost, the fight for justice would have to start over. This is just one blatantly negligent incident of many in this case while similar cases from the same time and in the same state led to multi-decade sentences for those non-LEO offenders. Once again, Kimberly is determined not to “roll over” and accept the crimes and negligence against her, regardless of the empowerment of the individuals or agencies committing the acts.