Probation for former police officers accused of rape
BY KELLY MENA AND NOAH GOLDBERG
BOROUGHWIDE — Two former Brooklyn cops accused of raping an 18-year-old in the back of their police vehicle pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of official misconduct and receiving bribes. Neither will serve prison time — a surprising conclusion to a case that caught headlines in 2017.
In a plea hearing in Brooklyn Supreme Court before Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun, the officers were offered a deal of five years probation for two counts of third-degree bribe receiving and nine counts of official misconduct. The former officers, Richard Hall and Eddie Martins, admitted to having sex with the 18-year-old — who goes by the pseudonym Anna Chambers — but argued that the sex was consensual.