Feliciano Sanchez, a 33 year old Los Angeles police officer had stopped the victim on May 16th, 2007 and at gun point and in uniform, drove her to a remote area and proceeded to sexualy assault her.
He was arrested by FBI agents on a federal indictment and accused of "violating a woman's civil rights by forcing her to have sex with him while he was in uniform." He was also armed during the aggravated sexual assault, which makes it also a kidnapping.
The civil rights charge carries a maximum sentence of life in a federal prison. Carrying a gun will add 5 more years to any sentence Sanchez will receive for the civil rights offense.
12 comments:
impossible..why? Because he is a person of integrity. I lived in City of bell for over 20 years and he was a dear friend of mine. One Day i asked him to come over for a dish that i had made that I knew was his favorite and how did he answer, "I can't right now, I have to cover some elses shift and i wouldn't want to come over in uniform, people would get the wrong impression." Think about that one.
This officer has destroyed the lives of the woman he raped and the lives of his wife and child. This is not conduct we expect of an officer, husband and father. His infidelities of the past are overshadowed by this rape but clearly were a red flag that we all ignored.
It happened to me 3 years ago. I agreed to go out with an undercover drug enforcement officer who is a state trooper. He put Rohypnol (or a roofie) into my drink. It probably happens way more often than anyone would think. I did the wrong thing. I didn't report it because I didn't think anyone would believe me. It's been 3 years since the assault and I'm still in therapy. He was also someone I thought I knew. Trust NO ONE.
I'm sorry that it happened to you.
Yes, it's important to report it, even if it is a police officer. Actually, especially if it is a police officer because they can get away with it more since women automatically trust them!
Just because they are repesenting the "LAW" does NOT give them my respect. At age 12 I was Raped by a officer of the "LAW" and he advised me if I told anyone of what he did, he would kill me. Now how is he representing the Law.. He got away with it, because he told everyone that he staked his career that he did nothing wrong and that I was a kid lying. To this day, 30 years later, I still remember it like it was yesterday!!! No, Just because someone wears a Badge... to me.. that means they are GUILTY of MORE Wrong than RIGHT and I have my Guard up ever more for them!!!!
That is really upsetting that he raped you when you were only 12 years old! I guess it is too late to bring it up again... or is it?
In all honesty. I've done the process in my head on what 'he' could go through... Prison, torchure, death, etc and NOTHING helps ME... The feeling of disgust doesn't go away. (30 years later) He put his reputation as an officer on the line saying he is an upstanding office of the law and would never do anything like that. And everyone believed HIM.. Why would anyone believe a 12 year old?... Everyone except the detective that looked in my eyes and say the pain, everyone but my school counselor and choir teacher... But my own parent believed "him". Infact, my father asked him "where are the best fishing spots in the area are?" when they decided to have a sit down and confont him. They dropped the case, back then, because "THEY" didn't want the embarassment of the publicity. (forget the fact that their child was raped)... So taking it to court now, I don't know if I could go through that again.
All that really gets me angry!
The only thing I can say since you don't think opening up the case will help you feel better about it, is that he hopefully is going through some sort of internal torture... And if there is any sort of balance in this world we live in, he will get punished some how... as they say, what goes around comes around.
I hope that you can some day overcome this horrible experience and put it behind you.
Thanks for your well wishes. I wish I had a switch I could hit and just get the memory out of my mind. But I don't! Obviously after 30 years... Reasently those memory have surfaced again... even after many years of therapy... So... Once again... I am going to try yet another therapist to see if they have any new bells and whistles to help snap me out of the horrible nightmares of the memories that plague me from time to time.
Like I said... If I thought hypnotherapy worked... and I could get rid of the memory for good... I would have done it a long time ago... Cause this 'feeling' is Just NOT worth it.
Every individual is a dear friend of someone else and all of us are someone's child. But we all have secrets and sides to us that no one else sees. Some of us do horrific things to others and some of us have had horrific things happen to us that we don't go around telling everybody about. So think about that!
Because of what I experienced, part of me will always be damaged and I will never be 100% trusting of anyone for the rest of my life. Part of me will always, no matter what, think I'm not worthy of respect.
Jennifer, unfortunately most of us don't trust everyone 100% and most of us at some point of our lives don't feel worthy of respect. But if we feel we aren't worthy of respect, it should be about something we were able to control and not for something someone else did to us that we couldn't control. You are worthy of respect.
I was pulled over back in November 2010 by a PG county officer and found out my license was suspended. He offered to escort me back to my residence to make sure I didn't get pulled over by any other officers and gave me all this information about what to do. He asked for my number to "help put me in contact with people." My dumb butt suspects all is fine. He came back later to give me my license so that I could handle my daily affairs; he left after forcing me to perform oral sex on him and taking the clothes he left his DNA on. I am trying really hard to get past this, and I'm too afraid to tell anyone, but I'm hoping that maybe someone else like me will give me the courage. I have a strong feeling I'm not the first woman he's done this to.
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