IRVINE : Ex-Officer’s Rape Sentencing Delayed

A judge postponed sentencing of a former Beverly Hills police officer who pleaded guilty to raping an Irvine girl after learning of a police report in which he was accused of molesting two other girls in 1981.

“Frankly, I think this is very significant,” said Superior Court Judge Everett W. Dickey. “It completely belies the defense claim that (the rape) was caused by his medication problems.”

Steven McCoy, 37, who became a stockbroker after leaving his police job, contends that he became mentally ill in the late 1980s and that he was off his medication on March 26, 1990, when he raped the 11-year-old at knifepoint when she was home alone. McCoy posed as a deliveryman and had even taken his own bedsheets to the girl’s house to keep the police from gathering evidence against him.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Debbie Lloyd had asked the judge to sentence McCoy to the maximum 52 years in prison. But defense attorney Jan Heger said it sounded as if the judge was going to give McCoy a sentence considerably short of that until learning of the police report.

McCoy was not arrested in the 1981 incident, involving two girls ages 10 and 11, but a police report was filed in Colton. McCoy denies knowing anything about that incident.

Dickey said, however, that he wants to learn more about it. “It changes the posture of the case completely,” the judge said in the Santa Ana courtroom.

Dickey asked prosecutor Lloyd to subpoena the two earlier alleged victims to testify at a hearing Friday.