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A erstwhile Nashville constabulary serviceman has been sentenced to probation connected a complaint of felony authoritative misconduct aft instrumentality enforcement officials accidental helium allegedly participated successful an big video portion connected duty.
According to tribunal documents filed Thursday, Sean Herman entered a "best interest" plea successful Nashville transgression tribunal for 1 count. A 2nd number was dismissed.
Herman, 35, faces 1 twelvemonth of supervised probation. The champion involvement plea means that a suspect pleads blameworthy portion maintaining factual innocence of the crime.
Additionally, helium was granted judicial diversion, which means that definite eligible defendants who successfully decorativeness probation nether the judge's conditions volition person their cases dismissed. They tin besides past petition that charges beryllium expunged from their record.
According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Herman was fired successful May 2024 aft detectives with the Specialized Investigations Division discovered the video and identified him portion wearing his MNPD uniform. He was arrested and charged with the 2 counts that June.
Sean Herman
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Officials accidental Herman tin beryllium seen taking portion successful a mock postulation halt successful the video that was posted connected OnlyFans, a tract wherever fans wage creators for their photos and videos.
The video, titled "Can't judge helium didn't apprehension me," showed a woman, identified connected OnlyFans arsenic Jordin, exposing her breasts to a uniformed serviceman who past groped her, CBS affiliate WTVF reported. The officer's look wasn't disposable successful the footage, but investigators determined it was Herman, the presumption reported.
An MNPD property merchandise says that the video was made connected April 26, 2024, successful a warehouse parking batch portion Herman was connected work arsenic a patrol officer.
"That was 1 of the astir outrageous, disrespectful acts that a idiosyncratic present could bash and by disrespectful, I mean to each the MNPD employees and this agency," constabulary spokesperson Don Aaron said successful 2024, according to WTVF.
In August 2024, a authorities committee indefinitely suspended Herman of his certification to beryllium a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful Tennessee, with the knowing that helium could reason to beryllium reinstated erstwhile the transgression lawsuit is closed.
Phone and email messages near with an lawyer listed for Herman were not instantly returned connected Friday.
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