Former Rochester police officer sentenced to 10 weekends in jail for raping 13-year-old

Canandaigua, N.Y. (WHAM)— A former Rochester police officer who pleaded guilty in March to rape and forcible touching was sentenced Wednesday to 10 weekends in jail and 10 years of probation.

Shawn Jordanadmitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl at his South Bristol home in 2022.

He was arrested in September 2023, six months after he was charged in a separate case forallegedly exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl in an online video chat while he was still with RPD. The department suspended Jordan without pay the same day he was arrested for those allegations.

At sentencing on Wednesday, the Ontario County Judge expressed shock at Jordan's actions, saying "I have no words."

“I’m thankful that it’s over for the victim and her family who are here today in court," saidKelly Wolford, Assistant District Attorney of Ontario County. "I'm not entirely satisfied with the sentence, and it was my recommendation, and the court indicated that she was going to impose 10 weeks of jail plus 10 years of probation. But ultimately, as a prosecutor, I have to weigh things like the impact of actually having to testify on the victim of this crime, and she was a child, and she was going to have to base her accuser in the courtroom."

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The judge said Jordan's actions violated the public's trust, adding she feels he deserves prison. Yet, she says the sentencing conditions were necessary to spare the child from having to testify in court.

"This is an ultimate tragedy, because these parents trusted him," Wolford said. "He's a police officer, and if we can't trust the police, then who can we trust? It's a very difficult situation. I'm a parent of three children myself, and it's one of those circumstances where you just look at it and say 'There, by the grace of God, go I.' Because this was a child who trusted somebody, and he was an adult who knew better."

The victim's family attended Wednesday's sentencing. Her mother said Jordan's actions "ruined her daughter's life" and said he "doesn't deserve to be out on the street."

Jordan will have to register as a sex offender, abide by an order of protection for the victim and her family, and pay more than $1,000 in fines, according to prosecutors.

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