A San Jose police officer is accused of raping a woman who called 911 following a domestic violence incident.
Officer Geoffry Graves, 38, has been charged with forcible rape, by Santa Clara County prosecutors, according to SFGate.com:
The incident [which occurred on Sept. 22] began when Graves and three other
San Jose officers responded to a family disturbance involving a married
couple about 2 a.m., prosecutors said. The officers determined that
both spouses had been drinking and had argued, but that no crime had
occurred, authorities said.
After police responded to the call, the woman told police she wanted to stay at a hotel where she had previously worked. Graves drove her to the hotel around 2:30 in the morning. She checked into her room and fell asleep. Then, about 15 minutes later, she heard knocking and opened the door:
“The defendant entered the room, grabbed the victim forcibly and pushed her onto the bed,” Sgt. Craig Storlie, a San Jose police internal affairs investigator, wrote in an affidavit.
Graves
then “took off parts of his uniform with the exception of his
bulletproof vest,” climbed on top of the struggling woman and raped her,
Storlie wrote.
The woman reported the incident in October, prompting an investigation by San Jose police. “Physical evidence corroborates the victim’s allegations,” and the woman identified Graves as the attacker, prosecutors said.
Graves was booked on Monday and posted $100,000 bail. He is currently on paid
administrative leave.
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