Despicable ex-Florida cop gets three years for sexually abusing at least three women
(Jesus Manuel Menocal Jr., Image credit: FBI)
On Friday the 13th, Jesus Manuel Menocal Jr., 34, a former Hialeah Police Department Sergeant, was sentenced in federal court in Miami, Florida, to 36 months in prison and one year of supervised release, which is the statutory maximum sentence.
On May 5, Menocal pleaded guilty to three counts of depriving women of their civil rights by sexually abusing them. At a change of plea hearing held on May 5, Menocal had originally been charged with three counts of depriving women of their civil rights.
Menocal admitted that he kissed a woman and caused her to touch his exposed penis; had a second woman, who was in psychiatric crisis, perform oral sex on him; and coerced a third woman, who was walking alone at night, into submitting to oral and vaginal sex.
While not directly related to the offenses to which he pleaded guilty, Menocal also admitted to bringing a fourth female into a Hialeah Police Department building and ordering her to remove her shorts and underwear, causing her to expose her buttocks to him. Menocal admitted that he was on-duty and in uniform during all of these acts, abusing his official authority. ~ Department of Justice
“The police officer sentenced today violated not only his victims’ rights, but also the public’s trust,” said U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez. “As this prosecution shows, we will hold accountable those in our South Florida community who abuse their positions of power and engage in such disgraceful illegal conduct.”
“The Department of Justice will not tolerate police officers who abuse their authority to prey on those they are sworn to protect,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen M. Clarke of the Civil Rights Division.
“Jesus Menocal now faces the consequences for using his position to sexually abuse women,” said Deputy Special Agent in Charge John J. Bernardo of FBI Miami. “Menocal was sentenced to the statutory maximum which is a testament to the courage of his victims to come forward and tell their stories as well as the dedication of FBI Miami’s Civil Rights Squad.”
The Miami Division of the FBI investigated the case, with assistance from the Hialeah Police Department. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov, under case number 19-cr-20822.
For more on this despicable ex-cop, see the video accompanying this article.
(Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office / Southern District of Florida)
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