NMSP settles lawsuit after officer pleads guilty to rape [Video]

GRANTS, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico State Police is paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to a woman who was raped by a former officer when she was in high school and he was her soccer coach. A trusted figure in the community abusing his power and a young girl.

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“The effects of sexual assault on a teenager and really on anyone are lifelong,” said Lisa Curtis, attorney for the plaintiff.

According to the lawsuit, in 2018, then New Mexico State Police officer and Grants High School girl’s soccer coach, Adrian Molina, was trying to get close with one of the players and texting her regularly, which became increasingly of a more private nature.

Then, court documents state in 2019, Molina told the girl to meet him at a school parking lot, gave her homemade wine, and sexually assaulted her. Police said he later told her “she owed him” to “keep …