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NEW YORK.- Dominican-born policeman Michael Peña, accused of raping a 29 year old teacher at gunpoint, is standing trial in the NY State Supreme Court, where he denies the charges on Friday.

In the second day of the proceeding his lawyer Efraín Savitt said his defendant, since fired from the Police Department, admits only “to having harassed” the teacher, but never of raping her.

He said there’s no forensic DNA evidence that implicates Peña, then in the 33rd Precinct, in having forced relations with the victim, but the teacher has in tears reiterated her accusation under oath.

She said Peña forced her to have oral sex, who pointed his pistol and forced her to have sex.

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Written by: riosm, 19 Mar 2012 10:59 AM
From: United States
If true and found guilty.....threw the book at him.
Written by: devin11, 19 Mar 2012 11:01 AM
From: United States, The Greatest City
This guy reset the bar for a brazen police crime. Just when we thought we had seen it all, this "element" reminds us that we have not. Dominican officers in the NYPD (almost 1,100 in total) have been complaining for some time that they are systematically overlooked for promotions and flat out refused for partnering by other officers. The head of the NYPD Dominican officers society suggested extra screening and more stringent background checks for Dominican candidate officers because of the negative in-house image of their group. I'm sure he hasn't had his job made any easier by this jackass.
Written by: dreadlocks, 19 Mar 2012 11:20 AM
From: United States
nice to hear your ideas , devin. do you think that the actions of guys like these have anything to do with his socialization process in a country in which which the security forces are above the law?
Written by: WalterPolo, 19 Mar 2012 11:40 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Sorry, no interim judges in in Nueva Yol 'manito.

Te jodiste.
Written by: dreadlocks, 19 Mar 2012 11:54 AM
From: United States
se jodio la bicicleta. sorry, buddy, but no phonecall to El General can save your butt in the good ole USA.
Written by: HateitorLOVEIT, 19 Mar 2012 12:36 PM
From: United States, Washington, DC
put him in general population in rikers...... let the GP harass him so he knows how it feels... I don't understand it, as many crack heads and hoes and clubs in NYC and you wanted to play with a teacher...must of been his fantasy... now, your going to be someone else fantasy...
Written by: kewrunner, 19 Mar 2012 2:12 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Es ist nichts falsch mit einer Waffe bedroht gezwungen. Warum wird sie verursacht so viel Probleme? Der Mann hat eine Waffe, sollte sie gehorchen.
Written by: WalterPolo, 19 Mar 2012 2:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
@kewrunner

This is an English language page.
Please restrict yourself to English, or our national language Spanish.

Dies ist eine englischsprachige Seite.
Bitte beschränken Sie sich auf Englisch, oder unsere Landessprache Spanisch.


Written by: Atabey, 19 Mar 2012 3:37 PM
From: United States, NYC
Ja, es ist ziemlich kompliziert, dass zu viele Sprachen gehen zur gleichen Zeit. Englisch und Spanisch die gelegentliche reicht völlig aus. Aber es ist gut zu wissen, mehr Menschen für DT angezogen werden.
Written by: HateitorLOVEIT, 19 Mar 2012 7:06 PM
From: United States, Washington, DC
hey, kwerunner.....vielleicht sollten einige Polizisten seine Pistole an den Kopf und er sollte sie seinen penis essen
Written by: hellborn25, 19 Mar 2012 8:27 PM
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
another pig bites the dust , send this scumbag to rikers they got some nice pumps for him to wear.
Written by: guillermone, 19 Mar 2012 10:39 PM
From: United States
You guys are placing a label on police officers of Dominican origin. The truth is cops in general are a corrupt bunch every where, some places are worse. I was once in charged of a finance dept in NY, we would systematically turned down anyone who was a police officer. They were the worst credit risk imaginable. We prefered the humble factory worker, the every day common laborer who worked hard to earn his money. They paid and hardly ever missed a payment.

Police forces are like mafias anywhere and cover for each other until the very end. It is not a surprised to me there is no DNA evidence? I wonder what happened? Who handled the investigation. It is like placing a rat in charge of the cheese. The lack of physical evidence would create reasonable doubt that would most likely allow this criminal to get off easy. Just wait and see what will happen. Getting a cop to jail is extremely difficult. The judges are on their side and will make it hard to incriminate this jerk.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Mar 2012 3:07 PM
From: Australia
So he's guilty because he's an ex cop?
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