A former Riverside police officer has been found guilty of forced oral copulation and petty theft. He has since been sentenced to six months in prison and three years probation.
Robert A. Foreman, an eleven-year police veteran, was arrested in October 2008 and charged with forced copulation after he forced a woman to perform oral sex on him in order to avoid arrest. He was also charged with sexual battery and a second count of forced oral copulation, but the jury deadlocked on the first offense and acquitted him of the second.
Foreman was charged with assaulting three women between February and April 2008. He has denied the allegations and insisted that his sexual relations with one of the victims, a woman identified only as Kathryn, was consensual.
Kathryn, however, testified that Foreman assured her she would not be arrested as long as she agreed to cooperate. Foreman came to Kathryn’s house in response to a domestic disturbance call. At the house police discovered drug paraphernalia and evidence of check fraud. Worried she would be arrested for violating her probation, she agreed to “cooperate” with Foreman, who later returned to the house and demanded sex.
The jury sided with Kathryn and Foreman was found guilty of forced copulation.
Another woman, identified as Tessa, claims Foreman gave her a ride to a bus station and, upon dropping her off, put his hand down her pants and tried to kiss her as she got out of the vehicle. The jury found Foreman guilty of sexual battery, but only convicted him of taking item’s from one of Tessa’s costumers. Tessa is a known drug user and sometimes works as a prostitute.
A third woman, Nadia, a known prostitute and cocaine addict, claims that Foreman drove her to an isolated area and ordered her to perform oral sex. She testified that she complied because she felt she had no choice. Forman claims his interaction with Nadia was strictly limited to gathering information about drug suppliers. The jury sided with Foreman.
The judge presiding over the case gave Foreman a 125-day credit for good time and time served, which means he could get out of jail in as early as three weeks.
The district attorney may request a re-trial of the sexual battery charge, but at this time no such request has been made.
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