Oklahoma City Cop Will Serve 263 Years In Prison For Serial Rape Of Black Women

Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to a full 263 years in prison on Thursday for a series of rapes and sexual assaults against black women living on his beat.

Holtzclaw was convicted in December on 18 separate counts of rape, sexual battery, forcible sodomy, and procuring lewd exposure. He had been charged with 36 separate counts stemming from the allegations of 13 different women. The 18 convictions against Holtzclaw came from charges levied by eight of those 13 accusers, and had a maximum combined sentence of 263 years. The judge could have decided to let him serve some of the terms concurrently, which might well have meant he’d have lived long enough to come out of prison in the future.

Instead, he will spend the rest of his life serving the entire 263 year maximum recommended by the jurors who convicted him.

Judge Timothy Henderson, a former police officer, was supposed to announce Holtzclaw’s sentence at 10:00 local time. But proceedings were delayed for over hours because Henderson first had to deal with a motion Holtzclaw’s attorneys had filed for a new trial. The lawyers say…READ MORE