GUILTY OK - Officer Daniel Holtzclaw for rapes, sexual assaults, Oklahoma City, 2014

Holtzclaw is facing several charges including first-degree rape, first-degree rape by instrumentation, three counts of forcible oral sodomy, two counts of sexual battery and two counts of indecent exposure. Those charges are expected to be filed next week.

Officials say several victims have been identified, but others may have not come forward yet.

He is being held on a $5 million bond.

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Citty said the victims were forced to expose themselves, fondle themselves, and one of the women was raped. Citty said several of the women were forced to perform oral sex on Holtzclaw.

“Traffic stops, some of the individuals were actually just walking," Citty said. "Walking in their neighborhood and they were stopped, you know, searched, threatened in some way with arrest or something to that extent. And as a result of that, actually coerced them into providing sexual favors to him”...

Alitia Timmons is representing the 57-year-old grandmother who first came forward with allegations that Officer Daniel Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex during a traffic stop in June... “She was really, really fragile,” Timmons said. “She was scared to leave her house. When she was driving and she saw a police officer drive by, it would terrorize her and she has been piecing herself together.”

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Holtzclaw, an Enid native, worked the 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift at the Springlake Division, which predominately patrols the northeast part of Oklahoma City. Police said most incidents happened at the location of the stops, but some victims were taken to remote locations...

Investigators have received statements from six women, and one woman is scheduled to provide a statement, Citty said. The chief said all the victims are black women between the ages of 34 and 58, and the incidents occurred from February to June in the area of Lincoln Boulevard to Interstate 35 and NE 14 to NE 50.

Detectives began investigating Holtzclaw after a woman complained to police June 18. He was placed on administrative leave the same day. “We started the investigation and we started looking at traffic stops he had made throughout the previous months to try to identify and initiate contact with females that we knew he had stopped during that period of time, just to see if they had been sexually assaulted,” Citty said.

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By allegedly focusing on poor black women with criminal records, Holtzclaw kept himself from being caught — until he met J.L., a black woman who was just passing through the neighborhood he patrolled. “Not only is this individual stopping women who fit a profile of members of our society who are confronted rightly or wrongly by police officers all the time,” said the prosecutor, Gieger. “He identifies a vulnerable society that without exception except one have an attitude for ‘What good is it gonna do? He’s a police officer. Who’s going to believe me?’”

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DNA found inside the uniform pants of an Oklahoma City police officer accused of a barrage of crimes matches a 17-year-old girl he reportedly raped on the front porch of her mother’s home. The evidence was introduced Monday at a preliminary hearing...

The 17-year-old victim testified she first met Holtzclaw in June when he arrived to investigate a verbal dispute involving two of her friends. She testified he picked her up while walking home later in the day, threatened to arrest her on outstanding warrants, questioned her identity and eventually took her to her mother’s house. Once they were inside an enclosed porch at the home, Holtzclaw reportedly pulled down her shorts and forced her to have sex with him.

She didn’t disclose the incident until she was contacted by police. “What am I going to do? Call the cops? He was a cop,” she testified.

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A judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that there is enough evidence for an Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexual assaults to go to trial...

In all, Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, faces a total of 35 felony counts and one misdemeanor after 13 women testified about their forced sexual encounters with the officer while he was supposed to be on the job patrolling the streets, keeping the public safe.

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He was fired Thursday.

An officer delivered the letter from Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty to Holtzclaw directly, Capt. Paco Balderrama said.

“Your offenses committed against women in our community constitute the greatest abuse of police authority I have witnessed in my 37 years as a member of this agency,” Citty wrote. “These violations more than warrant your termination from the Oklahoma City Police Department.”

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OkieGranny said:

http://newsok.com/accused-oklahoma-city-police-officer-is-fired/article/5382849

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Cintaurus said:

Excellent news. Now to make sure he does prison time, is registered as a dangerously high risk sex offender, and is kept a close eye on when released back into the community which unfortunately will happen at some point. Hopefully they are also investigating him for any disappearances in the area.

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It was just last month that Daniel Holtzclaw was given this termination letter by Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty, saying he failed to respond or even appear at any of the hearings to plead his case.

Instead he filed a grievance with the FOP, who after looking at his case, chose not to represent him.

“He filed a grievance because he was terminated,” said Mark Nelson, the Vice President of the Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police. “And we heard what evidence was available and decided not to pursue that grievance.”

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An October 26 trial date is set for a former Oklahoma City police officer on dozens of charges he sexually assaulted 13 women while on duty.

Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy Henderson set the trial date Wednesday for Daniel Holtzclaw, who faces a total of 36 charges that include six counts of first-degree rape. The rape charges carry a sentence of up to life in prison.

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Dressed in a jail uniform, Daniel Ken Holtzclaw appeared in court Friday. His defense attorneys and prosecutors said they are ready to begin selecting jurors Monday.

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• His alleged victim count is 13.
• Victim's ages range from 17 to 58. ← this is extremely important
• He's 28. His frontal cortex is fully developed. That is, this is not about impulse control (or lack thereof).
• He was brazen enough to think he could get away with it bc he targeted women of color.
• He used his position of authority to take what he wanted.
• He is allegedly in a relationship.