FLINT, MI – A former Genesee County deputy accused of forcing a woman to perform a sex act in exchange for leniency is facing additional sexual assault charges in a new case.

The alleged victim testified Monday, Feb. 3 in Genesee District Court.

She said that George Zofchak, 41, forced her to perform oral sex on him while meeting to pick up forms she needed to obtain to go on a ride-along with him in his capacity as a police officer.

She also testified during questioning by Genesee County Assistant Prosecutor Sara Coaster that Zofchak forced her to have sex at a sheriff’s office substation.

The pair met on a dating website in 2016. The alleged victim testified Zofchak told her that he “worked for the government.”

After speaking for a few weeks, she learned Zofchak worked for the sheriff’s office. She then expressed her interest in law enforcement, she testified.

The woman is not being named because she is the victim in an alleged sexual assault.

She testified Zofchak “grabbed my head and forced me down" into a sexual act when the couple met at the Pheasant Run subdivision.

“He was very forceful and didn’t care,” she testified.

When she went to turn in forms at a sheriff’s office substation at Clio and Vienna roads, Zofchak allegedly forced himself on her.

He also pushed her down to the ground, causing an injury to her wrist, she testified.

Zofchak is charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and misconduct in office in the case.

The woman talked about how she first met Zofchak when questioned by Archie Hayman, Zofchak’s attorney. She said the pair chatted online for a few weeks, then ran into each other after messaging on the dating website, but didn’t agree to meet up.

She testified Zofchak messaged her that he’d seen her at different locations in the community while he was on patrol. They then met up along a road near her apartment complex in the Clio area.

“The interest was because he was a police officer and he was very informational and helpful,” she testified.

Hayman asked the alleged victim about nude photos she sent to Zofchak. She testified the pictures didn’t mean she had a sexual interest in him.

“It’s something I enjoy doing,” she testified.

She testified she didn’t contact police after the alleged assaults because she wanted the situation to go away. Another woman went to police on her behalf two or three years later.

The witness testified she was afraid to go to police and that Zofchak had made threats to harm himself if the information ever came out.

“He’d kill himself,” she testified. “He would be done.”

A March 12 hearing has been scheduled after Hayman asked for a motion to enter in evidence information regarding a sexual encounter between the pair. Coaster argued it was not admissible under the Rape Shield Act.

“I’m trying to show right now that even after she knew that he was an officer, after all these incidents, she still is having sexual activity with this man and she’s doing it voluntarily and it has nothing to do with his position as an officer,” said Hayman.

Hayman asked Genesee District Judge David J. Guinn to release Zofchak on a personal recognizance bond, but Coaster argued he is a potential flight risk because this is the second case in which he’s facing criminal sexual conduct charges.

Zofchak also faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and misconduct in office in a separate case for allegedly taking a woman who was in handcuffs to a hotel room and forcing her to perform oral sex on him.

The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office responded at 10:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve 2018 after getting a phone call about a shoplifter at Walmart on Linden Road near M-57 in Vienna Township.

Genesee County sheriff’s deputy charged with criminal sexual assault and kidnapping

Officials say Zofchak and another deputy responded to the call and arrested the man and woman suspected of shoplifting, then offered to stay with the woman, who was now in handcuffs, until the couple’s car was towed and impounded while the other deputy took the man to the Genesee County Jail.

After the car was impounded, Zofchak took the woman back to the motel she’d been staying at and forced her into giving him oral sex, now-retired Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell previously said.

Zofchak is accused of throwing the woman onto the bed and groping her. After the incident, Zofchak made sure the victim understood she wasn’t to say anything to anyone and reported back to the substation, Pickell said.

The incident was reported to the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department by the victim’s sister the following day. The case has moved onto Genesee Circuit Court.

Zofchak was a deputy at the time of both alleged incidents, but he’s since been fired.

Guinn denied Hayman’s bond request.

Zofchak remains in custody at the Genesee County Jail on a $200,00 cash or surety bond.