Officer Gets 3 Years in Sexual Assault
A South Gate police officer convicted on charges of sexually assaulting a driver he pulled over in a traffic stop was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.
Robin Craven, 35, pleaded no contest in January to charges stemming from a stop he made on Easter morning last year.
Before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley delivered the sentence, Craven apologized to the 23-year-old victim, who was in court, “for the pain and suffering I have caused you.”
According to the district attorney’s files, Craven pulled the woman over about 3:20 a.m. on April 12 as she was driving to her Huntington Park home. After she told him she had been drinking, Craven asked whether “spanking her would deter her from drinking and driving,” and then fondled and sexually assaulted her, the report said.
South Gate police suspended Craven without pay after the charges were filed, Koumjian said. Craven resigned after pleading no contest.
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