Houston, Texas
If you are a cantina waitress, or any other woman in the Houston, Texas area, you are a little safer tonight. Houston police officer and now convicted rapist Abraham Joseph will probably not be on the streets for a good long while.
Thursday, a jury found 29-year-old Abraham Joseph guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault.
Joseph, who has since been fired from HPD, handcuffed and arrested a waitress and another man in January 2011, and drove them away from the cantina where she worked, said investigators. Surveillance photos show Joseph letting the man out at a gas station. The woman said she was then driven to a nearby park at 3 a.m. and repeatedly raped by Joseph.
Prosecutors have suspected Joseph in numerous other rapes as well, which was confirmed by another victim that the jury heard testimony from.
Joseph's wife collapsed into tears when the verdict was read.
The victim also cried, but her tears were for relief. She told reporters that she thanked God because justice had been served.
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