NEW YORK (AP) – Two New York City police officers have been indicted on charges they sexually assaulted several women while on patrol, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
The indictment of officers Charles McGeean and Fernand Clerge stems from a Nov. 20 incident in which they stopped a woman in her car and then followed her to her apartment in the Bushwick section, where she was sexually assaulted, District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a statement.
Since their arrest, four other women have told authorities they were victims of the two officers.
The indictment charges the men with multiple counts of sexual abuse and official misconduct.
McGeean, 37, and Clerge, 38, have pleaded not guilty and are free on $10,000 bail.
Additional charges are possible, the district attorney said.
The officers’ lawyers contend Clerge had a previous relationship with the 35-year-old woman who was stopped on Nov. 20.
McGeean is a 13-year veteran of the police force, while Clerge has been an officer for seven years; both are suspended.
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