One year! What?!?
A former Chicago police officer who forced a woman to engage in a sex act in his squad car in 2019 was sentenced to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said Monday.
James Sajdak, 65, pleaded guilty in November to one count of deprivation of civil rights, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in a statement.
He was sentenced Friday to the maximum allowed for the misdemeanor charge.
On March 5, 2019, Sajdak flashed the lights of his police vehicle at a woman walking on the street and said something like “You can get in the front seat or you can get in the back,” which he meant to be a threat of arrest, Sajdak admitted in a plea agreement. The woman got in the front seat.
Sajdak locked the doors, drove to an abandoned lot and forced her to do a sex act, the plea agreement said.
Sajdak, a police officer since 1989, retired after the incident. The victim sued him and the city, and the case was settled, according to records and his defense attorneys. He was federally indicted in 2022.
Sajdak “abused the power and responsibility with which he had been entrusted,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-chicago-police-officer-sentenced-062229490.html
A former Chicago police officer who forced a woman to engage in a sex act in his squad car in 2019 was sentenced to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said Monday.
James Sajdak, 65, pleaded guilty in November to one count of deprivation of civil rights, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in a statement.
He was sentenced Friday to the maximum allowed for the misdemeanor charge.
On March 5, 2019, Sajdak flashed the lights of his police vehicle at a woman walking on the street and said something like “You can get in the front seat or you can get in the back,” which he meant to be a threat of arrest, Sajdak admitted in a plea agreement. The woman got in the front seat.
Sajdak locked the doors, drove to an abandoned lot and forced her to do a sex act, the plea agreement said.
Sajdak, a police officer since 1989, retired after the incident. The victim sued him and the city, and the case was settled, according to records and his defense attorneys. He was federally indicted in 2022.
Sajdak “abused the power and responsibility with which he had been entrusted,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-chicago-police-officer-sentenced-062229490.html