Maryland Cop Convicted Of Rape Sentenced To Home Detention

#White privilege

A Baltimore County, Maryland, police offi­cer con­vict­ed of rap­ing a woman and assault­ing anoth­er was sen­tenced to home deten­tion after a judge found that there was no “psy­cho­log­i­cal injury” in one of the cas­es, pros­e­cu­tors said Monday.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Keith Truffer sus­pend­ed all but four years of a 15-year prison term and ordered the offi­cer, Anthony Westerman, to serve it at home, NBC affil­i­ate WBAL report­ed. In a state­ment to NBC News, Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said the sen­tence was “not appro­pri­ate” for a police offi­cer, who “should know as well or bet­ter than oth­ers the rep­re­hen­si­bil­i­ty of such an act.” “I fear this could cause rape vic­tims to hes­i­tate to report their crimes if they do not feel like they will get jus­tice,” he said. Westerman, who had plead­ed not guilty to charges of sec­ond-degree rape, sec­ond-degree assault and oth­er crimes, was con­vict­ed in August, court records show.
Read the full sto­ry here. https://​www​.nbc​news​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​u​s​-​n​e​w​s​/​m​a​r​y​l​a​n​d​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​o​f​f​i​c​e​r​-​c​o​n​v​i​c​t​e​d​-​r​a​p​e​-​s​e​n​t​e​n​c​e​d​-​h​o​m​e​-​d​e​t​e​n​t​i​o​n​-​r​c​n​a​6​416