Thread: 2 Mexican Cops Charged with Raping Tourist

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2 cops charged with raping tourist

Wire services
August 09, 2005

CIUDAD JUÃ?REZ. Two Ciudad Juarez police officers were charged Monday with the rape of a U.S. tourist, authorities said.

Officers Gerardo Hinojosa and Juan José Castorena were accused of rape by a 24-year-old tourist from El Paso, Texas, who filed a complaint Saturday, Ciudad Juárez Police Chief Juan Salgado said.

Salgado said the officers have been suspended pending an investigation.

The woman told investigators the officers stopped her and her husband as they were getting out of a night club and arrested him for drinking in public. When she offered them a US50-dollar bribe to let her husband go, the officers put her in their patrol truck and raped her, Salgado said.

The officers denied the charges and said the woman was drunk when they arrested her husband. However, state investigators said a rape test had turned up positive.

I don't think she would have admitted to offering the police officers a bribe had she not been raped