Ex-Oklahoma officer gets 263 years for rapes, sex assaults

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Ex-Oklahoma officer gets 263 years for rapes, sex assaults
By SEAN MURPHY

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former police officer convicted of raping and sexually victimizing women while on his beat in a low-income Oklahoma City neighborhood was ordered Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Jurors had recommended that Daniel Holtzclaw be sentenced to 263 years in prison for preying on women in 2013 and 2014. District Judge Timothy Henderson agreed, said Holtzclaw will serve the terms consecutively and denied his request for an appeal bond.

Holtzclaw waived his right to remain in custody in the county jail for 10 days, instead opting to be taken directly to prison. Defense attorney Scott Adams said Holtzclaw will appeal.

"It is what it is," Adams said. "It wasn't a surprise."

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater had strong words for Holtzclaw, who was convicted last month on 18 counts, including four first-degree rape counts as well as forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery, procuring lewd exhibition and second-degree rape. Holtzclaw was acquitted on 18 other counts.

"I think people need to realize that this is not a law-enforcement officer that committed these crimes. This is a rapist who masqueraded as a law-enforcement officer," Prater said after the sentencing. "If he was a true law enforcement officer he would have upheld his duty to protect those citizens rather than victimize them."

The Associated Press highlighted Holtzclaw's case in a yearlong examination of sexual misconduct by law officers, which found that about 1,000 officers in the U.S. lost their licenses for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct over a six-year period.

Those figures are likely an undercount, because not every state has a process to ban problem officers from law enforcement. In states that do decertify officers, reporting requirements vary, but the AP's findings suggest that sexual misconduct is among the most prevalent complaints against law officers.

During the monthlong trial, 13 women testified against Holtzclaw, and several said he stopped them, checked them for outstanding warrants or drug paraphernalia, and then forced himself on them. All of the accusers were black. Holtzclaw is half-white, half-Japanese, and the son of a longtime Enid, Oklahoma, police officer.

Holtzclaw's attorney had described the former college football star as a model officer whose attempts to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he came in contact with were distorted. Adams also attacked the credibility of some of the women, who had arrest records and histories of drug abuse, noting that many didn't come forward until police had already identified them as possible victims after launching their investigation.

Holtzclaw's victims included a teenager and woman in her 50s. Three accusers delivered victim-impact statements Thursday, and at least one other was in the courtroom.

Jannie Ligons, whose complaint in June 2014 launched the investigation of Holtzclaw, said she has been under stress because of the case and the fear of being sexually assaulted again. "My daughter and sisters are frightful when a police car pulls up behind them," Ligons said.

The Associated Press does not identify victims of sex crimes without their consent, but she was among two women who spoke publicly about the case and agreed to be identified.

Another woman, who was 17 at the time of the assault, said her "life has been upside down" since Holtzclaw raped her on the front porch of her mother's home.

"It's been hard on my family. It's been hard on me," she told the court. "Every time I see the police, I don't even know what to do. I don't ever go outside, and when I do I'm terrified."

Several of Holtzclaw's victims have filed civil lawsuits against Holtzclaw and the city in state and federal court.

Thursday's hearing was delayed by a few hours as Holtzclaw and attorneys met with the judge over the defense's request for a new trial or evidentiary hearing, but after hearing testimony from another officer, Henderson rejected the request and moved on to witness statements.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-22

[Norvid 1950]

Psychopaths are everywhere.

[bark]

Once he is in Jail. I hope he get pay back for the Rapes ! His new name will be " Bend Over Bitch "

[Berkshire]

If the below is true, rather disturbing....

["The Associated Press highlighted Holtzclaw's case in a yearlong examination of sexual misconduct by law officers, which found that about 1,000 officers in the U.S. lost their licenses for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct over a six-year period.

Those figures are likely an undercount, because not every state has a process to ban problem officers from law enforcement. In states that do decertify officers, reporting requirements vary, but the AP's findings suggest that sexual misconduct is among the most prevalent complaints against law officers."]

[ggt]

It appears that there is no one to trust these days...a lack of morals, integrity, and placing value in the security and wellbeing of other humans has resulted in a world gone rogue...

Our most trusted institutions...employing priests, doctors, teachers and so on are no longer bastions of personal security...

The world is becoming a mad-house...

That is why private citizen should be able to protect themselves from the very authorities who are paid and sworn to protect them...

You may take my weapon...if you succeed in my demise...

[Cats4ever]

He will be getting on by the time of his release.

[condo bought]

He should have just shot them.

That seems to be perfectly okay.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thailand - please note:

--He wasn't moved to an inactive post as his sole punishment.

--The case didn't arise and then disappear from the news without any ultimate resolution being reported to the public.

--He wasn't allowed to flee the country while charges were pending against him.

--The judge didn't reduce his final sentence by half or a third because of his "useful" testimony.

--He wasn't granted bail (released) after being convicted.

--He won't be released early or pardoned by the President.

[wabothai]

Why did his fellow officers not report on him?

[Krataiboy]

Interesting to see that racial profiling is permitted for US criminals like this monster. It is banned in the EU, where rape and sexual assaults of adults and children of both sexes have soared since immigration from third world Muslim countries was introduced.

It took a Swedish whistle blower's leaked information on the races of sex attackers identified young Muslim men as overwhelmingly responsible for the country becoming the rape capital of Europe. The UK is still reeling from revelations that police and social workers looked the other way as Pakistani gangs in the Northern town of Rotherham sexually abused over 1,400 children. And who is likely to forget the events of Cologne in a hurry? Certainly not the women whose complaints of assault initially fell on deaf political ears.

These events are one predctable and inevitable consequence - there are others,well documented but too numerous to mention here - of taking in large numbers of young, most poorly-educated men from countries where women are treated abominably by Western standards and where the religion legitimises the abuse of Western "infidel" women?

We need to be far more discriminating about whom we allow to share the many benefits of our hard-fought-for civilised European societies. Otherwise we are simply sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

Edited January 22, 2016 by Krataiboy