State Trooper Convicted Of On Duty Rape

This case is one that demonstrates that rape cases must be judged on the evidence and not on stereotypes or without concern for how a person's power and position can be used to get another person to cooperate when that person is not a willing participant.

A Massachusetts State Police officer was convicted on Friday of three counts of rape while he was on duty in Cambridge last year, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said. Prosecutors said Daniel Grant, 42, of Holbrook, threatened to plant drugs on a 26-year-old woman unless she complied with his demands for sex in the Jan. 20, 2006, incident. He had denied the charges.

Protect and serve, eh?