Roger Golubski, a former Kansas City police detective accused of sexually abusing African-American women and girls for nearly three decades, will be released while awaiting trial linking two victims who say they were raped on different occasions , a federal judge ruled.
Rachel Schwartz, federal judge in the case, admitted that the former investigator’s accusations represented “reprehensible conduct” and that the facts were really “shocking”, however, she said that she is not at as much risk as when alleged crimes occurred.
Prosecutors also argued that Golubski could flee, but the judge ruled that his serious health problems linked him to the community.
The defendant, of 69 years old, was arrested and charged last Thursday with six counts of civil rights violations alleging that, as an officer of the Kansas City Police Department, he sexually abused a African-American woman and a teenage girl over twenty years ago. Five of the six charges state that Golubski kidnapped or tried to kidnap his victims.
Schwartz ordered the former detective to remain at home except to attend religious services and medical care, while being monitored 24 of hours of the day and that he was not with the victims or possible witnesses.
Prosecutors filed a motion Friday that included graphic details of their encounters with the two victims and added the claims of seven other women who say Golubski harassed and raped them.
The man has not been charged in connection with these seven cases, but prosecutors said they offered further evidence that is dangerous and that he showed “nothing but utter disregard for the law.”
Different women say that they or their relatives were victims of the former detective attended the hearing on Monday.
Golubski, who retired in 2010, pleaded not guilty to all charges and could face a possible chain life if he is guilty.
The attorney, Tom Lemon, said that his client needs medical attention for diabetes and to recover from quintuple bypass heart surgery. In addition, he expressed that it would be difficult to provide an adequate defense if Golubski remains behind bars.
According to the lawyer, the case requires “intensive” work because apparently the prosecutors have no physical evidence, only the statements of the victims.
The motion filed says that the former investigator showed his weapon while demanding sexual intercourse and told the victims that he would put them in jail or kill them or their family members if they ever told anyone what he did, prosecutors stated.
Enter the charges for which Golubski is accused of sexually assaulting a girl more than 10 times over three years. On different occasions he told the girl, who was 13 years old at the time, when he allegedly initiated the abuse of her, that he would kill her and her grandmother. He told her he was going to throw her in a river and sang a version of a nursery rhyme with the phrase “where they won’t find her until she stinks,” according to court documents.
Another victim, Ophelia Williams, was raped and sexually assaulted multiple times over two to three years, according to the motion. She initially molested the woman shortly after her two children were arrested, prosecutors revealed.
Civil rights activists have been seeking an investigation into Golubski for years. The accusations drew attention after Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, sued the former Kansas City detective and other officers.
McIntyre and his mother, Rose, argued that Golubski framed Lamont in 1994 because she refused the then-officer’s sexual demands.
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