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Criteria for determining media misrepresentation of
rape include:
- victim is treated with disbelief
- victim is portrayed as sexually promiscuous, or as partially responsible for the crime
- victim's voice is absent from coverage, while perpetrator's voice is present
- victim's past experiences are discussed while perpetrator's are not
Excerpts from “2
Cops In Sex Rap – Busted After Traffic Stop; B’klyn
Cops Arrested on Sex Rap” By Larry Celona and
Erika Martinez,
New York Post, November
21, 2005
Two on-duty Brooklyn cops
were arrested last night on
charges of sexually abusing
a woman they stopped for a
traffic infraction, police
said.
Officers Charles McGeean,
37, and Fernand Clerge, 38,
both of the 83rd Precinct,
stopped the woman for not
wearing a seat belt at Irving
and Myrtle Avenues in Bushwick
at about 3:10 a.m.
The officers followed the
35-year-old woman back to
her nearby apartment, where
the alleged abuse took place,
authorities said.
Five other people - four children
and an adult - were inside
the apartment at the time,
sources said.
It's not clear what, if anything,
they saw…
One of the sources said investigators
are looking into the possibility
that the woman recognized
one of the cops - and invited
both back to her apartment.
That source said McGeean stayed
downstairs and never went
inside the apartment…
McGeean was in the apartment
briefly, but he groped the
woman without her consent
while he was there, according
to the second source.
While upstairs, Clerge allegedly
fondled the woman against
her will and engaged in a
sexual encounter with her.
Investigators collected a
DNA sample, the sources said.
They also searched both cops'
lockers at the station house,
according to the sources.
It's not clear what they found.
The sexual-abuse charges are
based on the fondling allegations.
One of the sources claimed
the woman's alleged sexual
encounter with Clerge was
consensual.
The cops were arrested at
about 7:15 p.m. and both were
immediately suspended. They
are also expected to face
departmental charges.
They were charged last night
with attempted criminal sex
act in the first degree; first-degree
attempted sex abuse; third-degree
sex abuse and official misconduct.
The woman refused medical
attention.
McGeean is a 13-year veteran
and Clerge has been on the
job for seven years.
McGeean is married with at
least one child, a source
said.
It was not immediately known
if Clerge is married. |
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