Woman ‘had to slash cop boyfriend’s bicep with a knife to stop him raping her’

Humberto Zuniga allegedly ignored his girlfriend's pleas to stop until she hacked at him with the blade

A woman had to slash her police officer boyfriend’s bicep with a knife to stop raping her, it has been claimed. Humberto Zuniga, 41, reportedly forced himself on his girlfriend at their home in San Antonio, Texas, on July 31. He was arrested and placed on leave from the San Antonio Police Department on Wednesday.

Zuniga’s alleged victim said she’d met him on a dating app several months previously, and that they’d since become boyfriend and girlfriend. She said she was at his apartment drinking and dancing on the evening of the alleged attack when Zuniga asked her to have sex.

The woman said she answered no, only for Zuniga to force her onto his bed and rape her, according to mySA. Zuniga is said to have ignored repeated pleas from his girlfriend to stop, with the woman driven to digging out a knife and slashing his arm to get her to stop, a police affidavit claims.

Zuniga stopped raping his girlfriend afterwards, it is claimed, and drove her home. She said she initially avoided calling police to report the alleged sex attack for fear that no-one would believe her, but later did so.

Zuniga, who has worked at the San Antonio Police Department since 2002, was suspended from his job in 2015 over claims he’d threatened to send sexually explicit videos of an ex-girlfriend to her friends and family if she refused to drop a civil lawsuit against him.

He is being held on a $60,000 bond ahead of his first court appearance.

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