Macon police officer accused of sexual coercion fired

A Macon, GA police officer accused of sexually assaulting three women has been fired after his failed appeal to the police chief. William Enders, 35, was charged with sexual assault of a person in custody the day after Christmas, and released on $25000 bond, according to records. Until the firing, Enders was on administrative leave.

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"Enders has been terminated effective today," said police spokeswoman Sgt. Melanie Hofmann. Avery said Enders still has 30 days to appeal to the city's Human Resources Department for a hearing before an administrative law judge.

A police report says that Enders solicited sex from the initial victim and coerced another woman to take of her clothes by promising not to jail her. A victim initially went to the Georgia Bureau Of Investigation (GBI), but the case was transferred back to Macon police.

Later in the day, another one of the women under suspicion met with Enders at his office. While being questioned by Enders, the woman complained that she felt she wasn't free to leave, according to the report. At one point in the conversation, Enders told the woman that he "could make things disappear if something could be done for him."

When other officers later interviewed the woman about the conversation, she said she had asked Enders what he meant and "having sex with him" was mentioned, according to the report. She told officers that Enders called her repeatedly later that evening, and she did have sex with him at her apartment "because she did not want to go to jail."

A third woman being investigatedtold officers that Enders made her take off her clothes in his office with the lights out after stating that he could make her case go away, according to the report. While disrobed, the woman told officers that Enders saw the woman's sister drive into the parking lot outside the police department, and he told her to put on her clothes, leave and not tell her sister what had happened, according to the report.

After the interview, the woman told officers Enders repeatedly called her "wanting to get together," according to the report. Officers outfitted the third woman with a wire after launching an investigation into Enders' alleged activities Dec. 26. They were listening when Enders met with the woman at Applebee's on Riverside Drive. After listening to the conversation and observing Enders, officers arrested Enders.

Officers took towels from the second woman's apartment into evidence, according to the report.

Enders was hired back in 2003 as a bike patrolman, and trasnfereed to a property crimes investigator in 2006. There were no disiplinary actions in his file at the time of arrest.