ST LOUIS — An officer has been convicted after threatening a woman with arrest if she did not have sex with him.
It began on November 10 when the now-former officer Timothy Jones, 50, pulled over a 24-yr-old woman because he “suspected” she was driving drunk.
He began by forcing her to perform a sobriety test.
After she did the test for him, he threatened to arrest her unless she offered her body to him, according to reports.
He then put her inside his patrol car, drove to a private location, and forced her on the threat of arrest to perform “several sexual acts.”
According to reports, the woman left her cell phone in the officer’s patrol car.
Reportedly she also told her mother about the sexual coercion.
When investigators tried to return the phone to the woman, they reached her mother instead, who then reported what happened.
Further investigation led to the conviction of officer Jones.
He had worked as an officer for at least 20 years prior to the recent conviction.
In the course of 20 years, one wonders if he did this to other woman and got away with it — so far there are no reports that he did.
Imagine what would happen to a citizen if he walked outside with a loaded pistol, approached a woman, and threatened to kidnap her and lock her in a cage unless she gave him sexual favors.
Forcing a woman into sex on the threat of violence is grounds for a large punishment in most cases.
But in the case of officer Jones’s conviction, he wore a special blue costume and enjoyed government privilege when he forced the woman into sex. Thus he gets a light sentence.
UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Officer Jones received only 1 year in a county jail. Knowing how the system favors those with government-privilege, it’s possible that he’ll be released even earlier.
Originally prosecutors sought a four year sentence.
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