Provo Police Chief John King Costs Taxpayers $750k for Allegedly Raping A College Student!
King had prior allegations of sexual assault in his past employment
Here at Government Sex Predators, we’re dedicated to covering the allegations against government officials and proven misconduct of those officials who are sexual predators.
Hence, we present former Provo Police Chief John King, whose alleged misconduct towards at least five women in Provo led to the Provo taxpayers paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend against those claims, and hundreds of thousands of dollars more to settle those claims.
A month before he was hired in Utah, King was forced to resign as the Baltimore Police Department’s director of education and training after a female staff member alleged that he had groped her in a police interceptor. The woman was later paid a $24,000 settlement, and John King took his handsy leadership on the road to Provo, Utah, where he allegedly proceeded to rape at least one woman and sexually assault other women via groping.
After the female he allegedly raped came forward, the Unified Police Department never interviewed King. They allowed him to provide a timeline of his interactions with the victim, which the Salt Lake Tribune characterized as a relationship.
The woman outlined multiple instances where King sexually assaulted her:
After a meeting, King, who was married, asked her to dinner and then to his home to watch a movie, where he forcibly kissed and groped her despite her repeated protests.
After another meeting, King asked her to dinner and to watch a movie at his home, where he then had sex with her despite her protests.
There were several other times where King had sex with her despite her resistance and her protests.
King told his victim that the reason he wanted to have sex with her in her house was because he wanted her to remember him every time she went to bed. From King’s perspective, the woman’s behavior was “more than just Utah friendliness.” According to Chief Deputy Blake Nakamura of the Unified Police, the electronic communications between King and the victim presented “evidence problems.”
"When we looked at the totality of the information presented to us, we didn't feel we could make a case this was done without consent," Nakamura told The Tribune on Thursday, declining to discuss specific details because charges weren't filed.
"We had a variety of information," he added. "Some of it electronic, some of it spoken, but when we looked at all of the information, that was the issue we were confronted with — we weren't confident we could meet all the elements of a sexual assault."
As you do when you’re a law enforcement professional in state where 1,546 out of 13,212 rape allegations led to charges of rape or rape of a child, with only 393 convictions. And so the sands of time fall in the hourglass of the depraved and useless, and Utah remains a top ten state for rape. Then again, when even the Chief of Police is allegedly a rapist who evades accountability, how can rape victims trust the system to produce a conviction?
The Government Sex Predators roll on and on and on and on, and the rape train never stops. After all, if you want to depress rape reporting rates below 12%, you’ve got to give rape victims a reason to shut the hell up, and Utah certainly does that.
In the end, Provo taxpayers had to foot the bill for $750,000 in settlements related to John King’s alleged sexual assaults. They’ll be paying higher insurance premiums in the years and decades to come as a result.