Former police officer sentenced for sex crime
Posted: June 25, 2009 at 6:40 a.m.
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BENTONVILLE — A former Rogers police officer who admitted to sexually abusing a teenage girl has been sentenced to four years in prison.
A Benton County judge sentenced 27-year-old Shane Knaust Wednesday. Knaust pleaded guilty to sexual indecency with a minor in March.
The girl was 15 in January 2008 when she first reported that Knaust had abused her two or three years earlier.
Knaust was a dispatcher at the time of the abuse and was a Rogers police officer when the girl came forward.
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