Stephen Hardy used his teenage victim as a ‘puppet or sex object’, the judge said during sentencing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5071312

A police officer has been jailed for 26 years for 20 offences including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on a child.

Stephen Hardy, 46, a detective constable with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), used his teenage victim as a “puppet or sex object”, Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said during his sentencing on Wednesday.

  • @flossdaily
    1•1 year ago

    We’ve seen overwhelming evidence that there is a general culture of all cops protecting bad cops.

    What do you call a cop that allows a bad cop to evade justice? I call that another bad cop.

    Every single day we see more body cam evidence, and published police brutality complaints, and hours and hours of public cell phone recordings of cops being horrific.

    Cops have thoroughly earned their present reputation, and I don’t see them doing anything systematic to change it.