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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A Salt Lake City police officer was officially charged with 13 sexual abuse felonies on Monday, Dec. 16, according to court documents.
Zander Ethan Nunley, 26, was charged with eight counts of forcible sexual abuse, two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of object rape, one count of rape, and one count of aggravated assault. He was also charged with assault, a class A misdemeanor.
The charges are connected to an incident from earlier this month where Nunley allegedly sexually assaulted a woman he met on a dating app.
Documents say Nunley was watching a religious Christmas devotional with the woman when he started aggressively kissing and touching her despite her telling him to stop. Documents say Nunley raped the woman, who police say had bruises from the incident.
The victim told police she had seen several guns in the living room and Nunley had told her “she’d had a gun right by her head and chest the whole time.”
The Salt Lake City Police Department previously confirmed that Nunley is an officer and said the department “promptly placed [him] on paid administrative leave.”
“The allegations in this case are serious and conflict with our core values,” a SLCPD spokesperson said.
Nunley was booked in the Utah County Jail.
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