“They were all vulnerable young women,” said Stephen Wagstaffe, San Mateo district attorney. In an incident in San Mateo, he entered an “inhabited dwelling” where he committed the assault, the charges said. The three other cases happened in September and October 2015 in San Mateo, just south of San Francisco. In multiple cases, the officer touched the women while they were “unlawfully restrained”, according to a 19-page complaint. “He told her to get into his car, and that’s when the sexual assault occurred,” the prosecutor said in a phone interview.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2016 23:08 UTC