CHARGED COP ALLEGEDLY RAPED A GUY AND WENT TO TRAIL !
FOUND NOT GUILTY OF RAPE
BUT GUILTY OF INDECENT ASSAULT.
COP RESIGNED
WIFE FILES FOR DIVORCE
SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - A former police officer charged in an incident involving a man in protective custody at the Salem Police Department has been found not guilty of rape but guilty of indecent assault.
Brian Butler, 57, was convicted Tuesday by a Salem Superior Court jury for indecently assaulting a 28-year old man on Halloween 2016 and sentenced to a minimum of three and a half years and a maximum of five years in state prison, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett announced.
HALLOWEEN 2016
“I felt powerless,” the man said. “He was in a position of power.”
Butler has since resigned from the department and his wife filed for divorce.
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https://whdh.com/news/i-was-terrified-alleged-victim-takes-stand-in-ex-salem-police-officers-rape-trial/
‘I was terrified’: Alleged victim takes stand in ex-Salem police officer’s rape trial
SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - A man who claims he was forced into a broom closet at the Salem Police Department and sexually assaulted took the stand Thursday for opening statements in the rape case against former officer Brian Butler.
Butler, 57, is charged with raping the 29-year-old man while he was in protective custody at the department in 2016. At the time, the defendant was the husband of Salem Police Chief Mary Butler.
“I felt more so violated,” the alleged victim said. “I wanted all of it to just stop. I was terrified.”
The rape happened early Halloween morning after the man was taken in following a night of heavy drinking, according to police. Butler could be seen on surveillance video pretending to help the man, who was wearing nothing but a hospital gown.
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HE JUST CAN'T CALL BRIAN S. BURKE, STEPHANIE MUCCINI-BURKE AND THE THREE M COMPANY - MAURA, MARTHA AND MARIAN, AS WELL AS MICHAEL SULLIVAN TO GET OFF, AND THEN GET OFF...OF THE CHARGES....