Texas Cop Gets One Year In Jail For Raping Two Transwomen
01/20/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
http://lezgetreal.com/2011/01/texas-cop-gets-one-year-in-jail-for-raping-two-transwomen/ (http://lezgetreal.com/2011/01/texas-cop-gets-one-year-in-jail-for-raping-two-transwomen/)
The news out of Texas is if a man rapes a '->-bleeped-<-', he gets a slap on the wrist while his victim gets a life time of pain and suffering. Craig Nash received a year in jail on a misdemeanor charge of "official oppression" despite the fact that he arrested a transsexual prostitute in San Antonio, handcuffed her, drove to a hidden location, and forced her to perform several sex acts while he was on duty. Her story was confirmed by a rape kit that showed that Nash had raped her, and the GPS device in his patrol car showed that he had driven to that location. What is more, another victim had come forward to tell that she, too, had been raped by Nash.
Prosecutors cut a deal with Nash that he would avoid any and all felony charges of sexual assault by a police officer, and dropped all charges brought by the second victim so long as he pled guilty to this one misdemeanor charge and he agreed never to work in law enforcement in Texas again. His lawyers portrayed him as an honored police officer who 'had a lot of heroic acts' and that he was a good father with six children. Of course, a good man would never rape two women, transsexual or not.
I can't even...
Cops don't do well in prison. Justice may be served even if this was a travesty.
The reality is that prosecutors don't like trying cases they're not going to win. Most certainly he would have requested a jury trial and, right or wrong, I'm pretty sure it would be no trouble at all to find 12 people (and all you really need for a rape case is a simple majority) who would side with him versus a prostitute, let alone a transgendered prostitute.
It might be a lesser charge, but at least it is a conviction.