Officer accused of rape found not guilty

Then, he drove her to an area near the interstate and raped her at gunpoint.

She said she was face down, held in place on the hood with his right hand.

When the woman had sex with Maiorino on the hood of his squad auto, “maybe she wanted to be cool”, Salnick said, an obvious reference to the answer she gave when he asked her on the witness stand why she’d posed for a picture on a squad vehicle years earlier in the exact position she said Maiorino put her in.

As Maiorino went about his business, the woman went to a hospital with her mother shortly after and two weeks later filed a lawsuit against the police station. Maiorino, Rex said, didn’t return to collect the evidence immediately because “he thinks she’s not going to tell”.

First, they said, he threatened her with arrest if she didn’t perform a sex act on him.

Police received a complaint six hours later and began investigating the claim the next morning with the help of the woman. A used condom and other evidence were found in the field the next day by investigators.

Police also reviewed radio communications from Maiorino and found 54 minutes elapsed between when he picked up the woman and when he dropped her off.

He was suspended for two days that year for unsatisfactory performance and for mishandling evidence. His defense attorney has sought to convince jurors the sex was consensual. He also pointed out a number of inconsistencies in the accuser’s stories.

During her testimony, the now-21-year-old alleged victim vehemently denied being driven by greed, telling the court that would have made her ‘the most evil human being in the world’.

He then pinned her against the hood of his cruiser and had his way with her. When he was done, and after the woman had gotten dressed, she said she turned to see him holding his handgun.

The woman defended that the photo, taken back in high school, was in no way sexual and did not suggest her as having a fantasy of having sex on a cop auto.

Local media in South Florida report that a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest report says 44-year-old Bobby J. Jenkins of Lake Worth had a blood alcohol level more than double the legal limit when deputies say he struck and killed 25-year-old Jonathan E. Kendall of Boynton Beach on the night of June 13.