Cop scheduled to stand trial for rape

This is just sickening. A cop, sworn to help sexual assault and domestic violence victims, assaults a victim all over again. No wonder trust between cops and the people who they are supposed to protect is non-existent in some circles.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, which includes Cincinnati, is scheduled to hear the case of William Simpson, 47, a former police officer, who instead of protecting a woman from an abusive husband, stands trial on charges of rape and sexual battery from an incident October 3, 2006.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer's Cop On Trial For Rape,

The former boyfriend had broken into her home, assaulted her and run off, according to prosecutors.

Simpson said he needed to take pictures of her injuries, prosecutors have said. The woman asked Simpson if a female officer could take the pictures or if she could take them herself, but he refused and took the photos, making sexual advances toward her, prosecutors have said. He is accused of holding her down and raping her three times, according to prosecutors.

Simpson faces 31 years in prison. In Ohio, inmates serve every day of their sentences, and there is no 50%, or even 85% time. Bad cops, even when not sex offenders, and sex offenders, even when they don't molest kids, don't have the best reputations in prison if they are convicted.