SPOKANE, Wash. — A former Spokane police sergeant who was found guilty of second-degree rape of another officer was released on parole Tuesday morning.
According to the Washington Department of Corrections, 51-year-old Gordon Ennis was released just before 10 a.m. on August 6.
In 2015, a fellow Spokane police officer accused Ennis of sexually assaulting her at a house party. The victim said she was "very intoxicated” at the party, according to documents. She said she passed out in a guest bedroom and woke up to Ennis touching her inappropriately.
The victim also told detectives she tried to move away and heard Ennis say, "I gotta go, I gotta go home," in a panicked voice. Investigators said they later found the woman's DNA in Ennis's car on the gear shift and driver's side seat belt.
In March 2018 it took a jury only two hours to convict Ennis of second-degree rape. He was sentenced to at least seven years in prison with a maximum of life in prison.