The former Kissimmee cop who admitted brutally beating a suspect was sentenced Monday to nine months in the Osceola County Jail, a year after a grand jury indicted him and decried a police “culture of cover-up” that initially hid his crime.

Andrew Baseggio later pleaded guilty to felony battery, witness tampering and official misconduct.

The case began in April 2023 when Baseggio responded to a disturbance at a house on Brack Street, where body-worn camera video showed him entering without a warrant and attacking Sean Kastner by kneeing him in the face and stunning him multiple times with a Taser. Kastner was not resisting arrest, authorities said.

Baseggio lied on his reports about what took place, setting off a chain of events in which fellow officers and top officials downplayed and

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