Edwina McDonald was a victim of forgery by a DC cop.
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --- DC Superior Court Judge Ronna Beck sentenced to one and a half years in prison Friday a former Metropolitan Police sergeant who pleaded guilty to first degree theft from a senior citizen.
Aisha Hackley resigned from the police department as part of a plea deal after being accused of forging checks by signing the name of an 85-year-old woman she had been assigned to help in an unrelated fraud investigation. Those checks totalled more than 40 thousand dollars.
"I thought: here she is, a police officer and the mother of some children and you think your mother is an example, you know, and I just thought it was terrible that she would be that kind of example to her children," said Edwina McDonald, the victim in the case.
McDonald's father was a police officer in Chicago.
"All police officers have to be honest. We all have to be honest. You don't even have to be a police officers to be honest.
"I think everyone is required to be honest, I mean with one another. I mean honest in (not) telling lies . You shouldn't be telling lies. That's dishonest but, certainly, in terms of ripping people off, and of all people to do it, the people who are supposed to be protecting you, to me that's the worse crime, a more serious crime," McDonald told 9News Now.