Global Courant 2023-05-24 20:45:48
A former Kansas police officer has been sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults committed while an officer.
Todd W. Allen, 52, pleaded guilty in April to 12 sex crimes charges and five charges of invasion of privacy. Prosecutors said the assaults involving 10 female victims, including a 15-year-old girl, occurred while Allen was a Hutchinson police officer.
Allen was arrested on August 17, 2022 and was initially charged with 24 counts, including 17 felonies. He was sentenced on Monday.
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Prosecutors said Allen stopped vehicles transporting the victims and ordered them out of their cars, claiming he wanted to question them about drugs. He then took them to the back of the car and attacked them, The Hutchinson News reported.
Todd W. Allen, a former Kansas police officer, was sentenced to 23 ½ years in prison for a series of sexual assaults.
The invasion of privacy charges alleged that Allen looked through windows at the victims’ homes. He committed those crimes while he was a security guard after leaving the police force in 2019.
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Allen’s attorney, Chrystal Lee Krier of Wichita, argued that he should be sentenced to probation because he had no previous run-ins with the law and only used his fingers when attacking the victims. She called him a “model member of the community.”
Senior Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Rodebaugh recounted how all of the victims, including those who allowed Allen to see through their windows, remained terrified until he was caught and suffered emotional trauma despite a lack of physical injuries.
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Allen apologized and said he hadn’t thought about the mental issues his victims would face.
