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More accusations against Palm Beach Shores police officer

Officer has been on paid leave since March 2014

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More accusations against Palm Beach Shores police officer
Officer has been on paid leave since March 2014
More details are emerging about a rape accusation made against a Palm Beach Shores police officer.Charles Hoeffer has been on administrative leave with pay since March of 2014. That's when a blind woman in Riviera Beach accused the officer of raping her twice in two months.Click here to watch reportWPBF 25 News has obtained a copy of the police report regarding those accusations.The report said the victim knew Hoeffer and allowed him to come inside her apartment but tried to fight off his sexual advances."The victim stated Hoeffer stood over her and pried her legs apart with his knees," the report said. "During the incident, the victim was telling Hoeffer, stop, no, no, and tried to push him away."The victim told police Hoeffer raped her again a month later.According to the report, the victim then refused to speak further to investigators, saying talking about the incident was too stressful and gave her seizures.No charges have been filed.Hoeffer has been the subject of other investigations, as well.In 2010, a woman accused him of making crude comments to her while responding to her complaint of domestic abuse. The woman said Hoeffer told her he wanted to see her in a thong."Sitting there having him tell me that, I was like, 'Are you kidding me?'" the woman told investigators.In 2012, a Palm Beach Shores dispatcher accused Hoeffer of sexual harassment.In 2013, a Palm Beach Shores woman, Janice Martinetti, accused Hoeffer of sexually assaulting her."He was just rubbing my leg and pulling my dress up and asking to look at my panties and I just kept telling him to stop it," Martinetti told WPBF 25 News.All three of these cases were investigated and ruled unsubstantiated.Two other cases against Hoeffer remain open and are being investigated by the Palm Beach Shores police department.Palm Beach Shores police said they cannot comment about the two open cases and cannot comment on how long those cases will take to investigate.

More details are emerging about a rape accusation made against a Palm Beach Shores police officer.

Charles Hoeffer has been on administrative leave with pay since March of 2014. That's when a blind woman in Riviera Beach accused the officer of raping her twice in two months.

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WPBF 25 News has obtained a copy of the police report regarding those accusations.

The report said the victim knew Hoeffer and allowed him to come inside her apartment but tried to fight off his sexual advances.

"The victim stated Hoeffer stood over her and pried her legs apart with his knees," the report said. "During the incident, the victim was telling Hoeffer, stop, no, no, and tried to push him away."

The victim told police Hoeffer raped her again a month later.

According to the report, the victim then refused to speak further to investigators, saying talking about the incident was too stressful and gave her seizures.

No charges have been filed.

Hoeffer has been the subject of other investigations, as well.

In 2010, a woman accused him of making crude comments to her while responding to her complaint of domestic abuse. The woman said Hoeffer told her he wanted to see her in a thong.

"Sitting there having him tell me that, I was like, 'Are you kidding me?'" the woman told investigators.

In 2012, a Palm Beach Shores dispatcher accused Hoeffer of sexual harassment.

In 2013, a Palm Beach Shores woman, Janice Martinetti, accused Hoeffer of sexually assaulting her.

"He was just rubbing my leg and pulling my dress up and asking to look at my panties and I just kept telling him to stop it," Martinetti told WPBF 25 News.

All three of these cases were investigated and ruled unsubstantiated.

Two other cases against Hoeffer remain open and are being investigated by the Palm Beach Shores police department.

Palm Beach Shores police said they cannot comment about the two open cases and cannot comment on how long those cases will take to investigate.