Former Rochester police officer sentenced to ten weekends in prison for raping 13-year-old

A former Rochester police officer who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault in March was sentenced to 10 weekends in prison and 10 years probation.

Shawn Jordan admitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl at his South Bristol home in 2022.

He was arrested in September 2023, six months after being charged in a separate case for allegedly exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl in an online video chat while still with the Rochester Police Department. Police suspended Jordan without pay the same day he was arrested on those charges.

In handing down the verdict on Wednesday, the judge expressed his dismay at Jordan's conduct and said: “I am at a loss for words.”

“I'm thankful that it's over for the victim and her family who are here in court today,” said Kelly Wolford, assistant district attorney for Ontario County. “I'm not entirely happy with the sentence. It was my recommendation, and the court indicated that it would impose 10 weekends in jail and 10 years probation. But ultimately, as a prosecutor, I have to weigh the impact it will have on the victim of this crime to have to testify. She was a child and she should have had to face her accuser in the courtroom.”

The judge said Jordan's conduct had betrayed the public trust and added that she believed he deserved a prison sentence. However, she said the sentencing circumstances were necessary to spare the child from having to give evidence in court.

“This is the ultimate tragedy because these parents trusted him,” Wolford said. “He's a police officer, and if we can't trust the police, who can we trust? It's a very difficult situation. I'm a father of three children myself, and this is one of those situations where you look at it and say, 'It's only by the grace of God that I would be here.' Because this was a child who trusted someone, and he was an adult who knew better.”

The victim's family attended the sentencing on Wednesday. Her mother said Jordan's actions had “ruined her daughter's life” and that he “doesn't deserve to be on the streets.”

Jordan must register as a sex offender, comply with a protection order for the victim and her family and pay a fine of more than $1,000, prosecutors said.

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