High Level Seattle Cop Sentenced to 23 Years for Repeatedly Raping His Own Children

 Seattle, WA — In case after horrifying case, those in positions of  power are exposed for their crimes, showing how these positions often  attract society’s worse. One recent example of this is a police sergeant  in Seattle being found guilty this year for the repeated rape and  molestation of his own daughters. Daniel Amador, 46, has now finally been sentenced and he will spend the next 23 years behind bars for his crimes. 

In June, he was detained  after a jury found him guilty of first-degree child molestation,  second-degree child rape, third-degree child rape and first-degree  incest. According to the court documents, this vile top cop routinely raped  his older daughter, known in court papers as A.B., about five times a  week and also molested his younger daughter, C.A. During sentencing Amador claimed to have protected and cared for his daughters and he deserved a light sentence.

 “But you failed to take care of me because the biggest threat to my safety turned out to be you,” said his daughter in reply. The abuse took place for more than a decade and the little girls were  unable to tell anyone as their father was a cop. Both of the victims,  now ages 24 and 19, described their horrifying childhood in which A.B.  was Amador’s favorite one to rape while C.A. was regularly belittled. According to Seattle Pi, A.B.  testified to undergoing regular “pinnings,” which involved Amador  holding her down in his bed and talking with her extensively while  either touching private body parts or raping her. 

“I wasn’t allowed to have secrets from him,” A.B. testified June 5. According to A.B. the rapes began when she was just 9 years old and persisted even after she had gone away to college. According to C.A., she testified that the “pinnings” were more of a  punishment for her. This vile individual would lie on top of her and  grope her while they were sometimes partially or fully naked. 

On multiple occasions, Amador would force C.A. to leave the room,  then he would move the dresser in front of the door to his bedroom while  A.B. was locked inside. He would abuse A.B. in his bedroom—for hours. Showing the power police have to sweep things under the rug, in 2013,  a cousin of the girls called CPS to report C.A. because she began  cutting herself around the age of 12 as a result of the “pinnings” and  years of abuse. 

However, Amador was able to escape any accountability and told his  family that if anyone found out about him raping them, they could lose  everything they had if he was fired from being a cop. A.B. hadn’t told anyone about being raped as Amador had instilled so  much fear in his own children that they were terrified of what might  happen if anyone found out. 

During this time, Amador was being promoted  within the department and used this to threaten his children even more. “If I helped keep CPS away, it would help keep us together,” A.B.  said of that time, and keep them away they did. As Amador was an upstanding  member of the Seattle Police Department, the claims against him were  likely written off as they “must have been fabricated by some  anti-police nut job.”

 Once she finally left the house and the control of her sadistic and  horrifyingly abusive father, A.B. realized that remaining silent was not  something she should continue to do. During that time, Amador had  divorced the girls’ mother and remarried. 

Knowing that Amador’s new wife  was pregnant with a baby girl, A.B. realized she had to say something  to save her half-sister from a lifetime of abuse. In March of 2016, A.B. and C.A. came forward with their accusations.  In a wise decision, they went to a neighboring police department to do  so. As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, often times, police  departments will protect their own, even if they are abusive animals like Amador. 

In April of 2016, the Lake Forest Park Police Department arrested  him. Likely due to his massive salary as a sergeant, Amador posted the  $750,000 bail and quietly resigned from the police department after 21  years with them—likely keeping his taxpayer funded pention in the  process.   During this time, Amador was allowed supervised visitation with his  new daughter but was not allowed to visit the ones he’d abused for  years. On Friday, justice was finally served and this monster was sentenced to 280 months in a cage where he belongs.