Florida Cop Who Forced Women Into Sex Acts While On Duty Takes Plea Deal
Because this scumbag is a pig, he’s receiving a light sentence and won’t even have to register as a sex offender after sexually assaulting women and girls as young as 14. Jesús Menocal Jr. likely raped dozens of women while on duty over the course of five years, but the deal allowed him to plead guilty to just three misdemeanor counts. It’s another truly disgusting story out of Florida (where else), and another reminder of what “justice” really is in America. Via UPI:
A former police officer in Hialeah, Fla., pleaded guilty to three counts of depriving women of their constitutional rights by sexually abusing them, the U.S. Justice Department announced Saturday.
Jesús Menocal Jr., 34, admitted to committing a series of abuses while on-duty and wearing his uniform during a change of plea hearing, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Menocal said he coerced a woman walking alone into oral and vaginal sex, made another woman in the midst of a psychiatric crisis perform oral sex on him, exposed his penis to a third woman and caused her to touch it, and brought a fourth woman to the Hialeah Police Department to make her strip off her clothes.
Under the terms of the plea deal, he could receive a maximum of three years in prison for the misdemeanor charges and would not be required to register with the state as a sex offender — a significant reduction from the life sentence he originally faced.
His attorneys, Jude Faccidomo and Mycki Ratzan, said after his guilty plea that he “wanted to put this behind him” and “move on with his life,” the Miami Herald reported.
Menocal was originally arrested in 2019, one month after the Herald reported that he’d been using his badge to pressure women and underage girls into sex acts while on duty. The complaints traced back to 2014 and involved victims as young as 14.
Security footage shows Menocal repeatedly bringing women and girls into a police substation and taking them to rooms not covered by the surveillance systems, according to court documents.
Menocal detained 11 women during a one-month period between May and June 2015, the documents read. He didn’t file any paperwork on the encounters, which is a violation of policy.
[UPI: Ex-cop who forced women into sex acts takes plea deal]
How nice that he’s able to “move on with his life” after raping children.
