A former Los Angeles police officer at the center of the controversial shooting of an unarmed homeless man on the Venice boardwalk was sentenced Thursday to probation and community service for an unrelated misdemeanor domestic violence charge. Clifford Proctor, who in 2017 left the LAPD after the fatal shooting of Brendon Glenn, pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to a misdemeanor count of disobeying a domestic violence restraining order in Orange County. Seven other domestic violence charges, including two domestic battery charges, were dropped as part of a plea deal, his public defender Rose Angulo said. Proctor was also ordered to pay restitution to two victims who were present in the Westminster courtroom Thursday, complete 52 weeks of a treatment program for batterers, and honor a restraining order for three years, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. He cannot own a weapon for 10 years. Proctor was charged initially with misdemeanor battery in connection with a September 2016 incident in Huntington Beach. Advertisement Officials have revealed few details of the domestic violence allegations. Huntington Beach police and the Orange County district attorney’s office have denied repeated requests for more information. The complaint does not fully identify the people accusing him. “Mr. Proctor is innocent of the charges filed against him alleging domestic battery,” Angulo said. “He has maintained his innocence since Sept. 10, 2016, and today he received justice when the [Dist. Atty.] dismissed all charges against him, except for one count.” Angulo said Proctor admitted only to sending a text message to his fiancee after a protective order had been issued. Proctor shot Glenn on May 5, 2015, as he and a partner tried to take the 29-year-old into custody after reports of a man yelling at patrons and fighting with a bouncer outside of a bar. Proctor told investigators he believed the man’s hand was on his partner’s holster, but a video from the bar where the altercation took place contradicted his statement, a report by then-LAPD Chief Charlie Beck concluded. Glenn’s shooting drew immediate attention, which increased in 2016 after the Police Commission, which oversees the Los Angeles Police Department, and Beck recommended that the district attorney’s office file criminal charges against Proctor. It was the first time Beck had recommended criminal charges against an officer in an on-duty shooting. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey disagreed with Beck and the commission. “A duty to file criminal charges exists only when our office determines that the admissible evidence is of such a compelling force that it would warrant a conviction after considering the most plausible, reasonable and foreseeable defenses,” Lacey’s office wrote in a memo in March. “That is not the case here.” Advertisement The district attorney’s office hasn’t charged a law enforcement officer in an on-duty shooting in over 15 years.<doc-sep>A former Los Angeles police officer accused of sexually abusing a teenage member of the department’s heralded cadet program was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday after pleading no contest to statutory rape charges. Robert Cain, 32, pleaded no contest to oral copulation with a minor and having sex with a minor, a little more than a year after he was arrested by former Police Chief Charlie Beck as part of a widening scandal involving the LAPD’s signature youth program. For the record: An earlier version of this article stated that former LAPD Officer Robert Cain pleaded guilty to statutory rape charges. He pleaded no contest. Cain will have to register as a sex offender. He also will be barred for 10 years from contacting the victim, who was a 15-year-old LAPD cadet at the time of the attacks, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. David Reinert said. The felony conviction also will prevent Cain from attempting to become a police officer again, his attorney, Bill Seki, said. Cain resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department last year. Advertisement The girl, whose identity is being withheld by The Times, referred to Cain as a “monster” several times while reading a statement in court Wednesday morning. She accused the former police officer of robbing a piece of her youth and causing her deep emotional suffering and humiliation at school. “You were an officer, someone who promises to protect people like me from people like you,” she said. Cain originally was charged with two counts of oral copulation of a person under the age of 16, lewd acts upon a child and unlawful sexual intercourse. He faced up to seven years and eight months in prison had he been convicted of all charges. Luis Carrillo, an attorney representing the victim’s family in a civil lawsuit against the city, said both he and the girl’s mother were “unhappy” with the light sentence. “In a way, the criminal justice system does give officers somewhat of a break,” he said. “That happened in this case.” Reinert said the district attorney’s office believed the sentence was “appropriate” as it prevented the victim from having to testify against Cain in court. The sex abuse was uncovered as part of an investigation into the theft of LAPD cruisers and other police equipment in which members of the cadet program were charged. A subsequent review revealed flaws in how the program was run. In June 2017, three cadets driving stolen LAPD cruisers were accused of leading police on a wild chase through South Los Angeles that resulted in several car crashes. Ultimately, seven cadets were arrested and accused of taking at least three LAPD cruisers on joyrides and stealing police equipment that included Tasers, radios and bulletproof vests. Advertisement A search warrant obtained by The Times last year revealed that the cadets had access to the stolen cruisers for at least six weeks, driving as far away as Corona and Santa Clarita. Three cadets are now facing criminal charges in connection with the thefts. Cain’s victim was among the seven arrested, but she will not face criminal charges, Carrillo said. The son of a former LAPD officer, Cain was with the department for 10 years, working in the Van Nuys and 77th Street divisions before his arrest. He once applied to work as a youth services officer, but his application was denied. In a statement, the LAPD said Cain’s plea marked the close of a “disturbing incident within our ranks.” Advertisement “As mentioned by former LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Cain has tarnished the badge and is being punished accordingly,” the statement read. “While the Department will not comment on the specifics of the sentence, we do believe anytime an officer betrays the trust of the people we serve, it tears away at the fabric of our community.” Cain also was sentenced to two years in prison on illegal weapons charges in San Bernardino County earlier this year. While serving a search warrant connected to the sex abuse charges, the LAPD found a cache of weapons, some illegally modified, in Cain’s Rancho Cucamonga home. The earliest Cain could be released from state prison would be early in 2019, Seki said. “While Mr. Cain is not happy and we don’t agree with some of the statements made by the victim, we do believe that this is an opportunity for Mr. Cain to continue moving forward with his life,” Seki said. Advertisement The LAPD also has presented a case to the district attorney’s office alleging that Cain played a role in the theft of department property, prosecutors said last month. The district attorney’s office did not immediately provide an update on that case Wednesday. Seki said he doesn’t believe police have “any evidence tying” Cain to the thefts. Police said they began investigating Cain after uncovering text messages with the girl that detailed an inappropriate relationship between the two. The sexual assaults took place roughly 10 days before the LAPD began investigating the thefts linked to the cadets. Cain picked up the girl at her family’s home, then took her to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Reinert said. Cain sexually abused her several times that day, at various places within Los Angeles County, Reinert said. Speaking before Cain’s sentencing Wednesday morning, the victim’s mother recalled letting Cain into her home that day. She said Cain told her that he was “the officer in charge” of her daughter’s training and that he could help her achieve her dream of becoming a police officer. Cain framed the trip to Magic Mountain as a reward for her conduct in the cadet program, the woman said. Advertisement “I trusted him because he was an officer of the law,” she said. The woman then showed a ripped-up stuffed animal, which she claimed Cain gave to her daughter on the day of the abuse, and accused Cain of intimidating her into silence. The girl was scared that Cain would get in trouble with the LAPD if she talked about what had happened, and she also was concerned about the gun he was carrying at the theme park, her mother said. “Why did you do it?” the mother asked. “I want him to answer.” Cain, who has grown long hair and a beard since his arrest, did not respond or look at the victim or her mother as they spoke. Advertisement Times staff writer Richard Winton contributed to this report. james.queally@latimes.com Follow @JamesQueallyLAT for crime and police news in California. Advertisement UPDATES: 2:45 p.m.: This article was updated with comments from Cain’s defense attorney and the Los Angeles Police Department. 12:55 p.m.: This article was updated with details from the courtroom. This article was originally published at 10 a.m.<doc-sep>How Mom learned daughter was violated. 15 yr old Victim of LAPD sexual assault ripped up the stuffed animal LAPD officer Cain gave her. He assaulted her at Magic Mountain. pic.twitter.com/1g1t7geuib — Miriam Hernandez (@abc7miriam) August 15, 2018 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A former Los Angeles Police Department officer accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old female police cadet pleaded no contest Wednesday and was sentenced to two years in state prison.Robert Cain agreed to a plea deal on two felony charges in exchange for a two year sentence. The victim, who is now 16 years old, has also filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, emotional distress and civil rights violations.Cain resigned last year after being arrested by then LAPD Chief Charlie Beck after an investigation into Cain's involvement in the theft of police cruisers and other equipment by juveniles in the department's cadet program. The investigation revealed allegations of sex abuse.The girl Cain is accused of abusing was one of the seven cadets arrested for allegedly stealing LAPD cruisers.The victim was 15 years old when Cain engaged in an unlawful sexual relationship with her. "You made everything seem like it was nothing, and it was normal. You slowly built fear into me and confused me so that I would feel like there was no way out," the victim said in a prepared statement in court.She called him a monster. "I was a girl who was enjoying her youth and was thrown into this situation where I was forced to act like a woman," the victim said.It was revealed that Cain had obtained permission from the cadet's mom to take her to Magic Mountain as a reward for her performance. It was there in the parking lot where Cain assaulted her.Incriminating text messages from his phone were recovered when detectives were investigating the theft of LAPD cruisers.The victim's mother said on Wednesday that her daughter feared coming forward because he had a gun, and she was afraid.The sentences were ordered by the judge to be served concurrently.Cain has been in jail on weapons convictions after more than a hundred weapons were found in his home. He was sentenced to two years in county jail and four years of supervised released.<doc-sep>
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A former Los Angeles police officer will serve two years in prison for having sex with a teen cadet who was part of the department’s major scandal last year. As part of a deal with prosecutors, 32-year-old Robert Cain plead no contest Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court to charges of oral copulation of a person under 16 and unlawful sexual intercourse. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. He was also ordered to stay away from the victim for 10 years. Cain, a 10-year veteran of the department, had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl who was in the LAPD cadet program, prosecutors said. The victim read a statement in court Wednesday. It read, in part: “Monsters do not care about anything and have no problem hurting anyone. You took so much away from me and that’s something I will never get back. You were an officer, someone who promises to protect people like me from people like you.” The sexual abuse occurred on June 14, 2017, at Magic Mountain, prosecutors said. “It’s not only a crime, it’s a moral outrage for a grown man in his 30s to take advantage of a 15-year-old little girl,” the victim’s attorney Luis Carrillo told reporters following the hearing. “It was the fact that she was very afraid because there was a gun in the car, and he threatened her not to say anything about this incident, about his abuse,” Carrillo added. If convicted as originally charged, Cain could have faced up to seven years and eight months in state prison. The LAPD issued a statement saying Cain’s sentencing “closes the chapter of a disturbing incident within our ranks.” “While the department will not comment on the specifics of the sentence, we do believe anytime an officer betrays the trust of the people we serve, it tears away at the fabric of our community,” according to the LAPD. “The department remains committed to maintaining and further building our residents’ faith in our professionalism and integrity.” The girl was one of seven juvenile police cadets arrested in June 2017 for their alleged involvement in stealing LAPD squad cars, which culminated in two high speed chases and crashes. The cadets are believed to have pulled people over while impersonating officers, and also are suspected of stealing LAPD equipment, including tasers, radios and a bulletproof vest. Carrillo Wednesday told reporters his client was never involved or charged in the theft of the squad cars. Cain had already been sentenced to jail on unrelated weapons charges earlier this year. In January, Cain was sentenced to two years in county jail and four years of supervised release following his no contest plea in a San Bernardino County courtroom to one felony count each of manufacturing of an assault weapon and possession of multi-burst trigger device or “bump stock.” Eight other weapons-related charges were dismissed as a result of the former officer’s plea. It was unclear if his new sentence would run concurrently or consecutively with the one out of San Bernardino County. MORE: LAPD Cadet Scandal Then Chief Charlie Beck personally arrested Cain on June 22, 2017. The LAPD searched Cain’s Rancho Cucamonga home and found more than 100 weapons, police said, some of which were not legal to own in California, resulting in the weapons charges. Cain resigned from the force following his arrest. Meanwhile, the now-16-year-old victim filed a lawsuit against the city earlier this year, alleging sexual harassment, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress and civil rights violations. The lawsuit did not name Cain as a defendant. The girl claims in the lawsuit that Cain’s relationship with the plaintiff began in January 2017 and ended five months later, during which time he took her to places like Magic Mountain, gave her gifts and sent her inappropriate texts messages, the suit states. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. City News Service contributed to this report.)