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Cop Gets 40 Years for Raping Lesbian


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A suspended Rhode Island police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for raping a woman in an empty police substation in March 2007, according to the Associated Press.

Marcus Huffman picked the then-19-year-old woman up outside of a nightclub in Providence. She was clearly intoxicated, and Huffman, on duty and driving a police cruiser, offered to take her home. Instead he took her to the substation and raped her, leaving her in the bathroom. When the woman's family called 911 about the attack, Huffman was one of the officers who responded to the call. Huffman later said he and the woman had engaged in consensual sex, but she testified at his trial that she is a lesbian and not attracted to men.

Superior court judge Netti Vogel called the situation "something out of a horror movie."

Huffman also faces a 20-year suspended sentence and 20 years of probation, and he was ordered to register as a sex offender upon his prison release.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Jerry
    Date posted: 9/10/2010 12:16:59 AM
    Hometown: Washington DC

    Comment:

    40 year old cop rapes 19year old. I have to wonder how many other young women he raped and got away with it. Yeah being an ex-cop in prison makes his life expectancy less than most other prisoners. And rape isn't the most accepted crime either. If I shed any tears for him they will definitely of the crocodilian variety.

  • Name: SteveMD2
    Date posted: 9/9/2010 11:33:12 PM
    Hometown: baltimore

    Comment:

    As long as the other prisoners know he was a cop, the length of the sentence doesn't matter. He does deserve cruel and unusual punishment

  • Name: Joseph
    Date posted: 9/9/2010 6:46:05 PM
    Hometown: Montgomery, AL

    Comment:

    @Jessica: I'm not sure how a "double sentence" could do much more than the sentence he received. He's 40 years old and was sentenced to 40 YEARS in prison PLUS 20 years of probation on top of that (I'm not really sure what the 20-year "suspended sentence" means, unless it's to mean that he should/could have received 60 years behind bars). Even if the guy gets out early "on good behavior," there's usually a requirement to serve at least 1/3 of a prison sentence (either 13 years and 4 months, based on the 40 years, or 20 years if the "suspended sentence" counts towards the prison time). And to lift ANY of the probation requires some SERIOUS time spent in front of a judge, pleading his case. (And the "sex offender" charge almost never gets removed--it would require the victim fully recant her original accusation, and even then, there's no guarantee.)

  • Name: Jessica
    Date posted: 9/9/2010 5:27:43 PM
    Hometown: NJ

    Comment:

    Dirty filthy pigs need to have double sentences. One for committing the crime the other for blatant abuse of power when they should have been a protector.



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