O'Neill Sentenced For On-Duty Sexual Encounter

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A white former South Bend police officer whose fatal shooting of a Black man roiled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a charge related to an earlier on-duty sexual encounter. Forty-four-year-old Ryan O’Neill was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation after pleading guilty to ghost employment for a paid sex act with a woman while he was on duty in May 2019. That sexual encounter was uncovered by a special prosecutor who found in March that O'Neill's fatal June 2019 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan was justified.