Patrick Heron, 54, agreed to a negotiated plea deal with the District Attorney’s Office to avoid a fast-approaching trial on more than 200 counts.
A former Philadelphia police officer was sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty Friday to sexually assaulting vulnerable women and girls — often in the back of his police vehicle and while in uniform.
Heron’s defense attorney, Anthony List, said he hoped the plea would allow the victims to avoid the anguish of having to testify, and added: “hopefully everyone can move on.”Heron, who retired from the force in 2019, was initially arrested last year and accused of posing as an active officer to lure girls, including some of his daughter’s friends.
Before forcing one girl to perform sex acts on him, Heron told her that, “It would help you in court to have a police officer on your side,” testified Sgt. Gerald Rocks, the investigator on the case.
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