Officer Has Violent History, Transcript Says : Courts: Anaheim policeman indicted on charges of assaulting his girlfriend engaged in acts against women, grand jury report states. He has pleaded not guilty to the counts listed in the indictment.

An Anaheim police officer indicted last month on charges that he assaulted and threatened his girlfriend with a gun has a history of violent behavior aimed at women, according to a transcript of the Orange County Grand Jury proceedings.

Frank E. Stroobant, 45, pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment, returned last month. They include felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and making a terrorist threat, and two misdemeanor counts of assault and battery.

The indictment alleges that Stroobant assaulted Riqui K. Sedoris, 44--his former live-in girlfriend, who is the mother of his 1-year-old child--and assaulted her with a weapon in a series of incidents dating to March, 1992.

Stroobant’s attorney did not return phone calls seeking comment. Stroobant, who was placed on administrative leave after the indictment, also could not be reached for comment. He is scheduled to appear today in Orange County Superior Court for a pretrial hearing.

According to the transcript, which was made public this week, another woman who testified before the grand jury said that Stroobant routinely beat her during their long-term relationship, repeatedly threatened to kill her during fights, often held a gun to her head, and once raped her. No charges have been filed in connection with those allegations.

The woman testified that, when she reported the attacks to authorities, they took no action, the transcript shows.

“I felt then and I feel now that if I was to do anything to deprive Frank of his job, he would kill me,” the woman testified. “The people I talked to at Anaheim Police Department said it was my problem.”

A spokesman for the Anaheim Police Department could not be reached for comment Thursday.

In a divorce action filed several years ago, Patricia A. Scott, one of Stroobant’s five former wives, alleged that during a May, 1985, altercation, Stroobant put a loaded weapon to her face and threatened to kill her. Scott said in court documents that Stroobant had a violent temper, especially when he had been drinking.

Sedoris also testified before the grand jury that Stroobant admitted to her that he had physically assaulted two of his former wives.

Prosecutors sought to introduce testimony about the prior abuse to illustrate Sedoris’ state of mind at the time of the incident and to support her claim that she feared for her life, the transcript shows.

Sedoris testified that in March, 1992, nine days after she gave birth to Stroobant’s son, the officer came home drunk and started fighting with her. At one point, Sedoris said, she reached for the phone to call 911, but Stroobant ripped the phone from the wall and struck her in the abdomen “right where my C-section was. I curled up because it hurt so bad,” she said.

The fight escalated to the point that Stroobant pinned Sedoris to the bed and held a gun to her head, vowing to kill her as their baby lay crying in a crib nearby, she testified.

Stroobant, however, told an investigator for the district attorney’s office that he did not point a gun at Sedoris’ head during the argument, according to the testimony in the transcript.