Woman Calls 911, Is Raped By Responding Officer (Philadelphia, 2002)

Officer Responds To Call, Rapes Woman
Attack Happened On Domestic Dispute Call
UPDATED: 7:20 p.m. EST March 15, 2002

MEDIA, Pa. -- Jurors in suburban Philadelphia have convicted a local police officer of raping a woman after he came to her apartment on a domestic-dispute call.
In Media, Pa., Glenolden policeman Christopher Scaggs, 29, was found guilty on counts of rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, sexual assault and official oppression.
Scaggs was found not guilty on a second count of rape and a second count of sexual assault.
Prosecutors had claimed Scaggs used his position as a police officer to take advantage of the woman nearly two years ago. Scaggs now faces a mandatory minimum of at least five years in prison.
Scaggs was accused of responding to a domestic disturbance on June 5, 2000. When other officers left the scene, Scaggs allegedly attacked the 30-year-old woman in her own home.
The victim called 911, and then hung up. But because all 911 calls are traced, an officer was asked to respond. Prosecutors said the responding officer was Scaggs, and they claimed that he raped her again.
Scaggs was found not guilty of rape after he responded to the 911 call, but guilty of rape after he responded to the initial domestic disturbance call.
In a Delaware County courtroom in Media, Pa., prosecutors made the case that Scaggs had the time and the opportunity to rape a woman -- twice in the same day.
In later testimony, Scaggs' defense attorneys attempted to prove the two never had sex.
The policeman told a starkly different story than jurors had heard from the alleged victim. In his version, he was not the aggressor, she was.
Scaggs said he left without having sex with the woman.
Later, he was sent back to her apartment. Scaggs said he was there just three minutes, not enough time to rape her as he stands accused.

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