Ex-NYPD officer sentenced after admitting rape

Published July 16, 2012 6:01pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer who admitted grabbing a schoolteacher off the street and raping her was sentenced Monday to at least a decade in prison as he fights a far longer sentence from a related conviction.

Monday’s sentencing resolved, for now, the complicated legal case surrounding Michael Pena’s off-duty attack on a woman heading to her first day at a new teaching job. Although Pena has long acknowledged some form of a sexual attack, the case has navigated a trial, a partial jury deadlock, a guilty plea and two sentencings — one of which is now headed for review by an appeals court.

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