Melissa Maiorino, Stephen Maiorino’s wife, reacted to the verdict, telling WPBF-TV, “I’m just glad this nightmare is over [and] that justice prevailed”.
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Assistant State Attorneys Jessica Kahn and Marci Rex described the 36-year-old as brazen, saying he preyed upon the woman he was supposed to be helping after her friend’s arrest on fleeing and eluding charges left her stranded and frightened.
Over the radio in his auto, officers asked where he and the woman were: They said the woman’s family was at the station waiting to take the 20 year old home.
She said she was face down, held in place on the hood with his right hand. Then, he drove her to an area near the interstate and raped her at gunpoint.
Her DNA was all over a condom wrapper later found in that abandoned field, and despite prosecutors’ claims that Maiorino transferred it there himself after touching her, it was equally plausible that it is evidence she consented.
As Maiorino went about his business, the woman went to a hospital with her mother shortly after and two weeks later filed a lawsuit against the police station.
But Maiorino said the sex was consensual.
The department also noted his patrol auto was also involved in several crashes, and earlier this year struck a fire hydrant. Maiorino’s lawyers have said that Maiorino and his accuser, a 20-year-old Wellington woman, had consensual sex.
Salnick speculated that the woman wanted to have sex on the hood of the squad auto “perhaps to be cool” and brought up the fact that in 2011, while the accuser was still in high school, she posed for a photo showing her bent over the hood of a vehicle with her hands behind her back, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Maiorino, a married father of two who has been in jail since the incident, resigned from his job in May.
He then pinned her against the hood of his cruiser and had his way with her. When he was done, and after the woman had gotten dressed, she said she turned to see him holding his handgun.
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‘She feels she’s been put on trial, and made a mistake coming forward, ‘ the statement read.
