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SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile Sanger Police serviceman who was charged successful national tribunal for a bid of intersexual assaults portion connected work faces 5 consecutive beingness sentences, the Department of Justice announced connected Monday.
The defendant, J. Deshawn Torrence of Corcoran, was sentenced connected Monday wrong Fresno's national courthouse. The Department of Justice says that from August 2017 to June 2021, the 41-year-old engaged successful assorted forms of nonconsensual intersexual conduct portion connected duty.
Torrence was indicted in July 2022, having told a unfortunate successful 1 lawsuit to region her covering without a morganatic enforcement intent and forcing his victims to prosecute successful enactment acts. In different instance, Torrence forcibly raped a 67-year-old pistillate during a DUI investigation.
41-year-old J. Deshawn Torrence"Torrence's actions correspond 1 of the astir superior betrayals of nationalist spot imaginable by abusing his badge to perpetrate repeated intersexual assaults nether the colour of authority," said Sanger Police Chief John Reynolds. "He not lone victimized susceptible women, but besides inflicted lasting harm upon the estimation and the integrity of the Sanger Police Department."
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said Sanger Police reported the archetypal allegation against Torrence successful 2021. After announcing a hunt for different imaginable victims, Zanoni said aggregate victims came forward, and the probe was turned implicit to the FBI.
Torrence had joined the constabulary section successful 2016, a twelvemonth anterior to erstwhile the archetypal reported intersexual battle took place. He was past enactment connected permission successful 2021 erstwhile the probe developed further.
The FBI says astatine slightest 8 of the victims were contiguous successful the national courtroom erstwhile Torrence was sentenced to 5 consecutive beingness sentences for sexually assaulting 4 women whom helium encountered during the people of his authoritative duties.
Federal officials authorities that portion successful court, Torrence repeatedly lied astir the encounters, accusing the victims of fabricating their testimonies.
The DOJ states Torrence was convicted of 8 counts of deprivation of law rights nether colour of law. The assemblage recovered that 5 of the counts progressive kidnapping, aggravated intersexual abuse, oregon attempted aggravated intersexual abuse.
