Pants-of-dog wrote:It is a crime when your profession puts you in a position of authority over someone else and you abuse said position for personal gain to the detriment of that someone else.
Can you at least agree on this:
He was put in prison because he misused his role
as a grief counselor to
emotionally manipulate an emotionally vulnerable young woman into having sex with him?
The position that he misused was that of a grief counselor, not a law enforcement officer.
And the "manipulation" was entirely emotional, playing on her feelings.
When he had been assigned to her, he was acting in the capacity of, and taking on the role of a grief counselor, not the type of role that a police officer normally takes on. For that reason, the fact he was a police officer is not very relevant to this situation.
A man who was only a grief counselor could have just as easily done to this woman what this police officer did, it would have been exactly the same situation.
And even when this woman realised he was going beyond the bounds of a grief counselor, did she stop it? No.
She WILLINGLY continued to have sex with him over and over again.