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Prosecutors seek more possible victims of former Hedwig Village police officer
Prosecutors are urging more possible victims to come forward if they recognize a former Hedwig Village police officer accused of offering special treatment to a woman in exchange for sexual favors while he was still employed with the police agency.
“We know that sexual predators who use a badge to coerce vulnerable people generally do it over and over again,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “We have to get the word out to possible victims to come forward and speak up. It’s not easy, but it’s necessary and important.”
Ogg stressed that regardless of a person’s immigration status or criminal history, they should not fear reporting a crime.
“We do not ask victims how they came to the United States,” she said. “We treat everyone equally when it comes to seeking justice.”
A grand jury recently indicted Richard Hernandez, 37, for Official Oppression.
In July 2020, Hernandez, pulled over a woman who was driving alone for a traffic stop. When he saw the woman had open warrants, he said he wouldn’t arrest her in exchange for sexual favors, said Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Smith of the Public Corruption Division.
The woman acted like a willing participant and then once Hernandez stepped far enough from her vehicle, she fled the scene, Smith said. She later reported the incident to police.
If convicted, Hernandez, who has been fired from the police force, faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
“When you look at the confidence he had in approaching the victim and the way he tried to strike a deal, there may be a pattern,” Smith said.
Anyone who believes they were victimized by Hernandez is urged to call the Harris County District Attorney’s Office Public Corruption Division at 713-274-5911.
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‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Apprentice plumber sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting 4-year-old girl while on the job at her home
A 26-year-old apprentice plumber from Spring Branch has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting a 4-year-old girl in the living room of her home while his boss and the girl’s parents were looking at an upstairs bathroom, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday.
“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare to have a stranger violate the sanctity of a family’s home and abuse a small child, and I’m proud we were able to get justice for this little girl,” Ogg said.
Brandon Joseph Bonds, 26, pleaded guilty on Monday to Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, a first-degree felony, instead of facing a jury in a trial for the incident on Aug. 25, 2018. The plea spares the girl from having to take the stand at trial.
Bonds and his boss, a master plumber, were working on a garage apartment at the victim’s family’s home and the young girl was watching television in the living room. The girl’s father asked the master plumber to come check on an upstairs bathroom and locked the back door, leaving Bonds outside. Bonds was able to get the girl to unlock the door to let him in and then proceeded to molest her. He then went upstairs where the girl’s father asked him how he got in. After the plumbers left, the child told her parents what happened.
The girl was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital where she was examined by a sexual assault nurse examiner, who collected evidence and interviewed the girl.
The evidence against Bonds included DNA from the victim’s body and forensic evidence from his phone that showed that he recorded the incident on video. That video was deleted, but investigators with the District Attorney’s Digital Forensic Investigations Unit were able to recover evidence that it existed, according to Assistant District Attorney Preston Burns, who prosecuted the case.
“Of all the child abuse cases I’ve seen, this is one of the worst because that 4-year-old was watching cartoons in her living room, with her parents at home, and it should have been the safest place in the universe for her,” Burns said. “But he was able to get to her and do something terribly, horribly awful to her.”
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¿Ganará o perderá? Empresario texano apuesta 4.5 millones de dólares a Bengals en el Super Bowl LVI
El empresario texano James Franklin McIngvale, apodado ‘Mattress Mack‘ y conocido en EUA por sus millonarias apuestas deportivas, se juega esta vez más de 4.5 millones de dólares por la victoria de los Bengals de Cincinnati en el LVI Super Bowl.
Propietario de la cadena minorista Gallery Furniture, “Mattress Mack” ha vuelto a acaparar titulares con esta apuesta hecha a través de una aplicación para móviles de la firma Caesars Sportbook.
Obviamente, no pudo apostar una suma tan grande de una sola vez, según contó a las cadenas de televisión de EUA.
Pasó más de dos horas en una tienda de bebidas alcohólicas registrando apuestas con su teléfono hasta completar los 4.53 millones de dólares que decidió arriesgar por los Bengals.
Además, para poder apostar legalmente tal cantidad debió viajar desde Texas al vecino estado de Luisiana, cuyas normas sobre apuestas deportivas son más suaves.
Los medios dicen que se trata de la mayor apuesta deportiva hecha por medio de una aplicación en la historia de EUA.
La final de la liga de fútbol americano, el popular Super Bowl, se disputará este 13 de febrero entre los Rams de Los Ángeles y los Bengals de Cincinnati en el SoFi Stadium de Inglewood, California.
“Mattress Mack” acompaña sus apuestas con promociones en sus tiendas por el Super Bowl. En este caso si los Bengals ganan la liga, los clientes de su tienda que hayan comprado un colchón o determinados muebles recibirán el dinero gastado.
En caso de ganar la apuesta, McIngvale recibirá 7.7 millones de dólares.
Si no, su fortuna, que se calcula en unos 300 millones de dólares, se reducirá en 4.5 millones de dólares y “Mattress Mack”, seguramente recibirá una reprimenda de su esposa, dice uno de los medios.
De acuerdo con esta información, el empresario, miembro del movimiento conservador Tea Party, ha conocido la derrota en otras apuestas pero no escarmienta.
Source: elsiglodetorreon