RAPE COP GETS LIFE

Okla. monster can cry in jail for 263 years

A FORMER Oklahoma City cop convicted of raping and sexually assaulting black women he preyed on while on patrol was sentenced Thursday to 263 years in prison during an emotional hearing.

Daniel Holtzclaw received the maximum sentence on 18 counts of raping and sexually abusing at least eight African-American women in 2013 and 2014.

Three of the women delivered tearful statements during the hearing — including his oldest victim, Jannie Ligons, 58, and the youngest, a 17-year-old.

“It’s been hard on my family. It’s been hard on me,” the teenager said. “Every time I see the police, I don’t even know what to do. I don’t ever go outside, and when I do I’m terrified.”

Holtzclaw, 29, looked on with visible anger and attempted to make eye contact with the women, according to a KOCO reporter.

Holtzclaw’s attorney, Scott Adams, petitioned for a new trial before the sentencing based on claims that DNA evidence had been omitted from the investigation.

But the judge denied the motion on grounds that there was not enough evidence.

The monster cop was convicted last month on 18 of 36 possible charges that included sodomy and rape.

“I think people need to realize that this is not a law enforcement officer that committed these crimes. This is a rapist who masqueraded as a law-enforcement officer,” Oklahoma County District Attorney Scott Prate said.

“If he was a true law enforcement officer, he would have upheld his duty to protect those citizens rather than victimize them.”

While the charges officially include eight women, 13 women testified against him and all told a similar, chilling tale: Holtzclaw targeted the women in a low-income neighborhood in Oklahoma City he patrolled, searched them for drugs or paraphernalia and then forced himself on them.

All of Holtzclaw’s victims were black. Holtzclaw is halfwhite and half-Japanese, and is the son of a former Enid, Okla., police officer.

He was convicted by an allwhite jury.

Holtzclaw’s attorney had attempted to make the case that the ex-cop and former Eastern Michigan University football player was a model officer whose victims misinterpreted his efforts to help them.

Adams said he will seek an appeal.

Ex-cop Daniel Holtzclaw cried at December guilty verdicts for raping women in his Oklahoma City patrol area. Shardayreon Hill (above) and Jannie Ligons (left), two of Holtzclaw’s victims, show their emotion after guilty verdicts.