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UT - Police officer Ken Hammond sentenced to 90 days for sexual battery

View the article here 04/21/2009 By Tim Gurrister OGDEN -- The once-honored former Ogden police officer Ken Hammond was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in Weber County Jail for a sexual offense with a 17-year-old girl. Second District Judge Pamela Heffernan said it was particularly troubling that the offense occurred while Hammond was on patrol. "That puts it into a different category," she said. "The fact that he did it on duty adds to the aggravating factors in the case, despite an exemplary past." The judge was referring to Hammond's brief tour as something of a national hero in 2007 when he intervened to help stop a gunman in Trolley Square. Sulejman Talovic, 18, had killed five and wounded four at the Salt Lake City mall before the off-duty Hammond traded gunfire with him, keeping him at bay until a SWAT team arrived and killed Talovic...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).