Rural Missouri Sheriff Robert Becker Sentenced to Probation For Sex Abuse
A rural Missouri sheriff was sentenced on Wednesday to two years probation after pleading guilty to domestic assault and sexual abuse.
Knox County Sheriff Robert Becker will also have to resign as part of the plea deal he cut with the state Attorney General's Office.
The 51-year-old lawman abused an ex-girlfriend in bizarre and violent ways. The woman, identified her initials in court records, told Missouri State High Patrol investigators Becker choked her with a shirt in December 2017, according to a probable cause statement.
Four months later, in April 2018, he called her to the sheriff's office where troopers questioned her about her involvement in a crime. She agreed to let them search her home, and Becker tagged along. The woman later told investigators that while troopers searched one part of the house, Becker pulled out his penis and pushed it into her mouth "without consent."
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