Ex-Officer Gets 36 Years in Rape of 11-Year-Old
A business executive and former Beverly Hills police officer was sentenced to 36 years in prison Friday for raping at knifepoint an 11-year-old Irvine girl last year.
Steven McCoy, 37, who pleaded no contest to five sex-related counts, claimed that he had been seriously mentally ill for two years and that he committed the rape during a period when he was off his medication. But Superior Court Judge Everett W. Dickey could barely control his anger when McCoy’s attorney, Jan M. Heger, said the defendant’s mental illness made him “just as much a victim as the little girl in this incident.”
The judge said that McCoy deserved a harsh sentence because the crime was a planned and aggravated offense.
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