Ex-Cincinnati Officer Admits to On Duty Sex Crime

CINCINNATI --

A former Cincinnati police officer admitted Friday to sex crime charges.

William Simpson pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and agreed to resign from the police force.

Prosecutors said Simpson responded to a domestic dispute in October 2006 between a woman and her ex-boyfriend, who dispatchers said broke into the woman’s home.

By the time Simpson arrived, the man had left, and investigators said the officer took the woman to the clerk’s office to file burglary charges against her ex-boyfriend.

Simpson told the woman he would photograph her injuries, and authorities said the woman asked Simpson to find a female officer to take the photos.

Simpson refused, took the photographs, made sexual comments to the woman, held her wrists and sexually assaulted her, according to investigators.

Prosecutors agreed to drop three rape charges and an additional count of sexual battery in exchange for Simpson’s guilty plea.

He will be sentenced next month.

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