There’s a rumor in the Chris Brown abuse case is that his victim/girlfriend Rihanna is refusing to cooperate further with Los Angeles prosecutors. But it’s not for the reason you might expect. At first, the story was that Rihanna didn’t want to further incriminate Brown- but now, those close to the singer say that she doesn’t trust the prosecutors in the case to keep her testimony and other details of the incident from the media.

The word over the weekend from Los Angeles is that star singer Rihanna is not cooperating with prosecutors in the Chris Brown case.

Sources say Rihanna “wants the whole thing” to go away and isn’t helping the district attorney prepare his case against Brown for allegedly beating her to a pulp in the early hours of February 8th, the day the of the Grammy Awards.

Apparently Rihanna is angry, they say, that pictures of her bruises were leaked to the press. She’s not happy, too, that she was quickly identified as Brown’s victim.

[From Fox News]

Rihanna has every right to be upset about that photo being leaked. There certainly doesn’t seem to be much control over the information pertaining to this case, and I doubt that will change if there’s a trial. This was a very personal ordeal for her, and to have to go through it under this kind of media scrutiny must be a nightmare. It’s the court and the police’s job to protect the victim – and in this case, it hasn’t happened. Still, so many people are looking to Rihanna to stand up for herself – by having her day in court, if it gets that far, to tell her side of the story. She shouldn’t give up that chance, even if it means the world will hear what happened.

Note by Celebitchy: According to a rep from the L.A. County DA’s office quoted by TMZ, Rihanna is cooperating with investigators and they “deal with her attorney who says she is a cooperating victim.”

Rihanna is shown out on 3/26/09. Credit: Fame Pictures