Baltimore County Officer Sentenced To Home Detention For Rape Of 22-Year-Old Woman

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) —A Baltimore County constabulary serviceman was sentenced Friday to location apprehension for the 2017 rape of a 22-year-old woman, authorities said.

Officer Anthony Westerman, 27, was convicted successful August of 2 counts of second-degree rape, 1 number of a third-degree intersexual offense, 1 number of fourth-degree intersexual discourtesy and 1 number of second-degree assault, according to a hunt of online tribunal records.

At Friday’s sentencing hearing, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Keith Truffer combined the sentences for each 5 counts, saying helium had lone intended to convict Westerman connected 1 number of second-degree rape. He sentenced Westerman to 15 years down bars but suspended each but 4 years of location detention.

Anthony Westerman, 27

The justice besides sentenced Westerman to a time successful jailhouse for the second-degree battle of a 2nd unfortunate for what helium characterized arsenic a “boorish” act, according to the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office. He was besides ordered to service probation pursuing the completion of his sentence.

Westerman was suspended without wage from the Baltimore County Police Department aft the constabulary section learned of his charges successful December 2019. The presumption of his employment wasn’t instantly wide Monday.

According to tribunal records reviewed by WJZ, Westerman and a 22-year-old pistillate had been drinking astatine a barroom successful October 2017 erstwhile the serviceman called a rideshare to instrumentality them backmost to his home. The intoxicated unfortunate said she passed out. When she awoke, she said, Westerman was forcing himself connected her.

In a abstracted incidental astir 2 years later, Westerman led a pistillate to a secluded portion of a Baltimore County bar, placed his manus connected her waist and started kissing her without permission, WJZ reported.

Before handing down Westerman’s sentence, Judge Truffer said determination was nary grounds of intelligence wounded to the rape victim, contempt the victim’s denotation that she had sought therapy since the onslaught and the judge’s erstwhile statements that the incidental “may beryllium the astir traumatic moment” of her life.

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The justice determined that Westerman should beryllium released connected location detention pending the entreaty of his convictions.