A Boynton Beach police officer was just found not guilty
after he offered a stranded 20-year-old girl a ride home and was accused of
bringing her to an empty field and brutally raping her at gunpoint.
Officer Stephen Maiorino, 35, was charged with armed sexual
battery, armed kidnapping and unlawful compensation or reward for official
behavior last year after police discovered his disgusting actions on the night
of October 15.
The victim, a 20-year-old woman, was left stranded downtown
after a friend she was riding with was arrested on DUI charges. According to
the police report, Maiorino offered the young woman a ride to the station so
she could wait for someone to pick her up.
At this point, a waking nightmare began for the young woman
in Maiorino’s car. Maiorino did drive her to the police station, but when she
tried to get out of the car, he grabbed her and told her that if she didn’t
perform oral sex on him, he would arrest her, according to the police report.
Obviously fearful of this psycho cop, she agreed, and the
officer drove off 20 blocks north of the department, which is located near the
intersection of Seacrest and Boynton Beach boulevards, to an abandoned field.
Maiorino then held the young woman at gunpoint and forced
her to strip naked. He then forced her to the hood of his car and raped her,
according to the report. She said she was facedown, held in place on the hood
with his right hand. During the assault, she told police, she looked back at
her attacker and saw the gun in his left hand.
Investigators found the condom Maiorino used to allegedly
rape the woman in the field the next day.
According to the report, when Maiorino was finished raping
the woman, he told her that if she told anyone, he would kill her and her
family.
On Tuesday, the cries of the alleged victim, his 21-year-old
accuser, filled the courtroom as the words “not guilty” were read out loud.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, she wailed, “No! No!” before
her dad held her as she stumbled out the door. She screamed and cried out,
“Why?” before being helped onto an elevator.
The defense’s case was that this hero veteran police officer
messed up and had consensual sex while on duty last October.
Maiorino never had to take the stand.
His entire case was based on building him up while breaking
down and discrediting the young woman. The defense claimed that the woman only
fabricated this story as to later attempt to get money from the department.
Unlike Maiorino, the woman did take the stand. “That would
make me the most evil human being in the whole world,” she said, calling the
allegations a fabrication “a disgusting thing to do to ruin someone’s whole
life.”
The defense went on to say that the young woman craved sex
on the patrol car “perhaps to be cool.”
They used a photo of her in high school posing on the hood
of a car in a “strikingly similar position” as proof that she was lying about
the rape.
Despite their entire case relying on defaming a young woman,
the jury sided with the cop — likely for obvious reasons.
That’s incredible. Photo of a girl posing on the hood of a car can justify a rapist in future. Girl’s words meant less for trial than Maiorino’s silence (he haven’t to take the stand). This is police officer’s privilege – the uniform makes him look safe or at least he can order you to anything because you have to cooperate with police – there were many cases when cops were justified even after murders when the victim didn’t listen for cop’s orders. So police can afford all kinds of bad crimes legally. That’s unbelievable.
Wow.
This is my area bruh
I want blood
i want his head. i really want him dead i dont care.
This is my town. All the young girls from the area should find him. The law isn’t doing its fucking job.
Caravankids 