Cops having sex with people they arrest was previously legal and became such a problem that lawmakers in New York were forced to pass legislation to make NYPD cops stop raping detainees.
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A Chicago police officer has been arrested on multiple charges after he was caught raping a mentally ill man who was chained to a hospital bed.
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Because cops kidnapping people and then having sex with them is legal in 35 states, two alleged brutal rapists may walk free for savagely raping a New York teen.
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Citizens were outraged after a former cop who was caught with horrifying images of abused children was given a suspended sentence and walked free.
Why is it that in spite of rampant sexual misconduct among police officers, this group has managed to escape the spotlight? Fear and intimidation.
As Hollywood abuse finally gets the coverage it deserves in the media, the massive problem of police sexual abuse remains under-reported and taboo.
Oakland, CA — Jasmine Abuslin will receive close to $1 million from the city of Oakland after claiming multiple cops sexually assaulted her, including when she was underage. The 19-year-old may file similar claims against several other Bay Area police departments.
Abuslin’s $989,000 settlement from the city of Oakland, California, came after a Tuesday night meeting of the city council stretched into the wee hours of Wednesday, as council members voted in favor of the amount 7-to-1 at 2am, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“The settlement occurred with no admission of liability, but obviously, if you pay $1 million, you figure you got some responsibility,” Abuslin’s attorney, John Burris, said in a statement.
BIG THANK YOU to my legal team 👌#Lateef #Adante #John #grateful
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Abuslin is a former prostitute who was allegedly “passed around” for sex by up to a dozen Oakland police officers, some of whom purportedly had oral sexual relations with her when she was underage. She has claimed that eventually approximately 30 police officers from departments around the Bay Area had sexual relations with her or sexually assaulted her.
Last summer, her claims led to investigations and criminal charges brought against seven Bay Area officers as well as the resignation of Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent and discipline for several other Oakland officers, according to the LA Times. Additionally, investigators from the Alameda County district attorney’s office and Richmond Police Department were fired.
During a Wednesday press conference, Abuslin expressed relief in reaction to the settlement, although her lawyer had initially asked for $66 million. She told reporters she never anticipated such a result, because she thought “no one cared about prostitutes.”
“I don’t feel anything,” she said when asked about her emotions toward the officers involved. When asked if she had advice for other girls in a similar situation, she replied, “Not at the moment.”
Abuslin has said that in exchange for sex, police would give her a heads-up on planned raids.
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Burris, a civil rights attorney, is leaving open the possibility of further claims being filed against police departments in Livermore, Richmond and San Francisco, as well as the sheriff’s departments in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Glen Burnie, MD — As news of the missing and sex trafficked children gets swept under the rug in Washington DC, cops, as the Free Thought Project has pointed out, have often been caught not only engaging in the trade but also running it. Now, in a new low, we’ve found a cop who was engaging in the child sex trade and then stooping even lower to rob his victim after.
Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 27, of Glenn Dale, was arrested Thursday at his home in the 7500 block of Lake Glen Drive in Prince George’s County for a slew of despicable acts. Ekwonna stands accused of armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault, two counts of third-degree sex offense, reckless endangerment, prostitution and related weapons charges, according to police.
Ekwonna was caught participating in underage sex trafficking by paying a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him. Then, after he engaged in the sex act, this low-life cop pulled out his gun and robbed the poor girl.
As WBALTV reports, Once the sexual encounter was over inside his vehicle, Ekwonna produced a gun and demanded his money back, police said. The girl complied and Ekwonna left the vehicle.
On Friday, a judge denied Ekwonna bail after calling the charges “incredibly disturbing.”
“We have a situation here where an officer’s involved from another jurisdiction who was in a position of trust,” Anne Arundel County police spokesman Marc Limansky said.
According to police, they were notified about the incident by the Department of Homeland security over concerns about possible human trafficking. However, they claim the girl was acting on her own.
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“Because social services believed this was a human-trafficking-related incident, they notified Homeland Security; however, we have no indication that any human trafficking has occurred here. She was engaged in this on her own free will and was not being forced to engage in this activity whatsoever,” Limansky said.
Whether or not the girl was acting on her own is irrelevant when looking at the actions of Ekwonna, however. This man is tasked with protecting society. People rely on police to prevent instances of child sex trafficking and robbery — yet this public servant was engaging in and initiating both.
“It’s very unfortunate to have happened, but fortunately, he has been arrested and is off the streets,” Limansky said.
Ekwonna’s police powers have since been revoked and he has been placed in a non-contact status. Both the Anne Arundel County Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division are investigating.
As the Free Thought Project pointed out on several occasions, some of the worst human traffickers in D.C. have been cops.
Linwood Barnhill Jr., a veteran of the D.C. Police Department, was exposed by the Free Thought Project for running a child sex ring out of his house. In 2014, in an early morning search warrant issued for his Southeast D.C. apartment found a 15-year-old girl who had previously been reported missing by her parents.
When police rescued the girl she told officers that she had met six other girls inside the Southeast D.C. apartment who told her they were also being prostituted, including with ads posted on backpage.com. Barnhill also took naked photos of the girls, purportedly for use in advertisements for sex.
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Marijuana, condoms and a large mirror were also seized from the apartment; law enforcement officials say that the seized mirror had the names of other females who were being trafficked written on it.
Around that same time, another cop in the area was also exposed and arrested for trafficking teens. Lamin Manneh, 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to traveling across state lines and using a telephone and internet to operate a prostitution business using two teens he prostituted out over 300 times.
It’s not only limited to DC either. As the Free Thought Project previously reported, cops in Chicago were under investigation by the FBI after they were implicated as the operators of a sex trafficking ring that held children, as young as 14, captive.
Ely, MN — On October 14, 2015, Sgt. Jason Allen Carlson, with the Ely police department, was indicted on charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for admitting to having sexual relations with an underage girl. It took over two years, but in January, the officer pleaded guilty. However, because of his blue privilege, Carlson will not see a single day in jail — and, as we’ve just learned, he’ll receive severance pay from the department.
Carlson, who was described in court as an acquaintance to the girl’s parents, admitted to breaking the law. He admitted to taking the girl, against all department policy, on ride alongs with him. She wasn’t even old enough to drive yet.
During the indictment, Carlson also admitted to having sex with the child.
“I engaged in sexual contact with an individual who was at least 16 but had not reached the age of 18,” Carlson stated in a plea petition. “I knew I could not do so.”
Because Carlson was in a position of authority, his acts with this child were that much worse, as she could’ve been intimidated into the relationship. According to the Duluth News Tribune, a St. Louis County grand jury in October 2015 indicted Carlson on a felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge, alleging that he was in a “position of authority” over the victim.
Carlson’s case was set for trial in January. However, due to the fact that cops across the country, who admit to vile acts, even with children, are given special privileges by the court system, Carlson entered into a plea deal. St. Louis County prosecutor Gary Bjorklund then reduced the charge to misconduct of a public officer.
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Instead of spending time in jail, now Carlson will most likely even escape probation. But it gets worse.
Carlson, who’s been on paid vacation for over two years since admitting to having sex with a minor — was not even fired.
Earlier this month, the Ely police department, with the blessing of the city council, allowed Carlson to quietly resign — and agreed to pay him $15,000 as part of the resignation deal.
Imagine for a moment that a person works in the civilian sector and is arrested and charged for having sex with a minor. Of course, everyone is innocent until proven guilty — so, they may not be fired right away. However, once they were indicted after admitting to the charge, what are the odds that a private company would allow an admitted child sex offender to collect a paycheck — for two more years — and then receive severance pay?
Not only would that person have been immediately fired, but they would have been convicted much faster, and they would be in jail right now.
However, because Carlson wears a badge, this 11-year veteran of the Ely police department will likely use his newfound windfall of cash to relocate to another department — and do the same thing all over again. After all, he gets to act out his sexual desires with high school freshmen and then gets insanely long paid vacations.
MANHATTAN (CN) — A former police officer who raped a New York City schoolteacher in broad daylight drew no sympathy from New York’s highest court, which unanimously affirmed his 75-to-life sentence on Valentine’s Day.
Michael Pena, now 32, had been off-duty on the morning of Aug. 19, 2011, when he pulled his loaded and police-issued gun on a young woman. The 25-year-old was on her way to her first day of teaching in the Bronx, when Pena pulled her into the courtyard of an Inwood apartment building and raped her.
Prosecutors broke down Pena’s assault into three separate offenses in his indictment, with each carrying a 25-year sentence.
Pena appealed to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, after a lower court upheld his sentence in 2015, rejecting the ex-cop’s claim that this punishment was unfairly multiplied.
Pena’s lawyer Ephraim Savitt has emphasized that his client’s penalty is 63 years longer than the average rape sentence. “If that disparity is not cruel and unusual, then perhaps there’s no purpose to having the Eighth Amendment on the books any more,” Savitt said in a phone interview on Tuesday.
In unanimously upholding Pena’s sentence this morning, the Court of Appeals noted that the Pena’s counsel did not invoke alleged violations of U.S. and New York Constitutions.
“Although defendant generally objected to the length of the sentence before the sentencing court, arguing that the sentence was draconian, he did not alert the court to his constitutional argument,” Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam wrote for the six-judge court.
“Thus, the sentencing court was never given an opportunity to address any of the constitutional challenges that defendant now lodges with this court,” she added.
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Chief Judge Janet DiFiore joined the ruling, as did Judges Jenny Rivera, Leslie Stein, Eugene Fahey and Michael Garcia.
Attorney Savitt bristled at this reasoning. “The Sixth Amendment now takes precedence over weight to give to it than the Eighth Amendment,” he said in an interview.
Another sentencing disparity in Pena’s case involves that between the average U.S. sentence as opposed to other advanced nations.
Marc Mauer, the executive director of the advocacy group Sentencing Project, surprised many in congressional testimony last year by proposing an upper limit of no more than 20 years – barring “exceptional circumstances” – in the federal sentencing structure.
That Pena had been a police officer when he committed his horrific crime likely contributed to his heavy sentence, but Pavitt asserted that international politics may have played a role as well.
Just days after Pena’s attack, New York City prosecutors were forced to withdraw charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn because of evidence discrediting the hotel maid whom the then-director of the International Monetary Fund director had allegedly raped.
Activists accused Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance at the time of blaming the victim.
Savitt suggested that this political climate created a tough posture in prosecuting his client, though this argument did not come up in Pena’s appeal.
Judge Rowan Wilson did not take part in the decision as he only joined the court in January.
Judge Abdus-Salaam is the first Muslim woman to sit on the state’s highest court.
El Paso, TX — “Isolated incident,” “a few bad apples” — these are just some of the terms used to downplay occurrences of police misconduct. “This officer is not representative of all police,” we are told when a serial rapist cop is exposed. However, when looking at actual numbers, these incidents appear to be anything but isolated. Two recent police officer arrests last week in El Paso, Texas — both for sexual assault — back this point up quite powerfully.
Last Friday morning, a four-year veteran with the El Paso Police Department was arrested on sexual assault charges. According to the charges, while officer Brian Michael Lujan was out protecting and serving the citizens of El Paso, he was also raping them.
According to officials, Lujan’s charges and subsequent arrest stem from the rape of three separate victims who were all attacked by Lujan while he was on-duty.
According to KVIA:
The investigation stemmed from a complaint alleging criminal conduct that was filed with EPPD’s Internal Affairs Division..
Officials said two separate investigations were conducted: a Criminal Investigation by the Special Investigations Unit, and an administrative investigation by the Internal Affairs Division.
During the criminal investigation, the Department requested the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(F.B.I.).
The multi-agency investigations took five months to complete and shortly after 8 a.m. on Friday, police moved in to arrest their fellow officer. Lujan is currently being held on a $325,000 bond.
On top of the charge for sexual assault, Lujan was also charged with two counts of Invasive Visual Recording. The details regarding the charges have been kept from the public. However, police are asking anyone with information regarding these cases to call the El Paso Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division at (915) 212-0157.
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While Lujan’s case sounds terrible by itself, his arrest is the second one within just a few days from the El Paso Police Department.
Two days before one accused rapist cop was taken off the street, another alleged sexual predator was also arrested — this time for the sexual assault of a child.
Last Wednesday, according to KVIA, detectives with the police department’s Crimes Against Children Unit arrested 46-year-old Juan Carlos Gardea, a 19-year veteran of the police department, and charged him with Sexual Assault of a Child.
Four days before arresting Gardea, his child victim came forward with the details of the alleged sexual assault.
According to the affidavit, Gardea got into bed with his victim and another small boy and began groping her buttocks and breasts.
According to Delaware Online, the complaint describes in graphic detail what the girl told investigators about how Gardea allegedly fondled and molested her, including that she was forced to inappropriately touch Gardea, who also allegedly attempted to rape her. It does not disclose what the boy was doing at the time of the alleged assault.
Immediately after it happened, the alleged victim bravely came forward to report it. The girl was interviewed by detectives specially trained in child physical and sexual abuse, the document states.
Gardea will be spared the public embarrassment of having his mugshot released, as his undercover work could potentially be compromised.
As the Free Thought Project has reported numerous times, sexual misconduct among police officers is uncomfortably common. While there hasn’t been a study showing the abuse in at least two years, the most recent numbers from 2015 paint a disturbing picture.
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In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault, sex crimes that included possession of child pornography, or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.
The most disturbing aspect of that investigation is the fact that the number, according to the AP, is unquestionably an undercount because it represents only those officers whose licenses to work in law enforcement were revoked, and not all states take such action. California and New York — with several of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies — offered no records because they have no statewide system to decertify officers for misconduct. And even among states that provided records, some reported no officers removed for sexual misdeeds even though cases were identified via news stories or court records.
“It’s happening probably in every law enforcement agency across the country,” said Chief Bernadette DiPino of the Sarasota Police Department in Florida, who helped study the problem for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “It’s so underreported and people are scared that if they call and complain about a police officer, they think every other police officer is going to be then out to get them.”
Newton, NJ – New Jersey police officer Jason R. Miller was arrested in 2014 after he was caught on video exposing himself to motorists at traffic stops. Because of his police officer status, Miller was let off with a slap on the wrist and now he’s struck again. This time, he stands accused of sexually assaulting a child in a Burger King bathroom.
The original charges in 2014 were backed up by the police department’s own dash-cam footage, which clearly showed officer Miller exposing himself to people at traffic stops.
In 2014, Miller received multiple charges, including two counts of second-degree official misconduct, one count of third-degree pattern of official misconduct and the disorderly persons offense of lewdness.
However, this obvious sexual predator was allowed to continue to prey because his police officer status granted him special privileges during his prosecution.
According to NJ.com, Miller was allowed to resign from the force in 2015 after pleading guilty to tampering with records, and was sentenced to probation. As part of the agreement, charges of official misconduct and lewdness stemming from the motor vehicle stops were dismissed.
However, the allegations Miller is facing now are far worse than flashing people his penis during traffic stops — and the Newton police department is partially responsible.
Miller, once again, finds himself accused of multiple sex crimes including sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, criminal restraint and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office website.
Currently, Miller is in the Sussex County jail on $200,000 bond.
According to the complaint, and the surveillance camera videos inside the Burger King, Miller followed his alleged 16-year-old victim into the bathroom. This was contrary to what Miller told police, saying the pair walked into the bathroom together.
According to the report on NJ.com:
Following the alleged assault Thursday, the Burger King manager followed Miller to his vehicle, according to an affidavit obtained by NJ Advance Media, and New Jersey State Police were called.
The boy told police that he was in the bathroom when Miller entered the room and placed his hand down the boy’s pants.
Miller allegedly then tried to force the teen to perform fellatio on him, according to the affidavit.
Miller denied the allegations, telling police that he went into the bathroom at the same time and that the teen offered him oral sex.
Also recorded on the surveillance camera was something very disturbing. Apparently, Miller’s sexual urges to assault the 16-year-old boy were so strong that he left a 3-year-old toddler alone in the restaurant while he went to the bathroom for several minutes.
The relationship between this child and Miller is unclear as it was not defined in the affidavit. However, the 3-year-old was in Miller’s care at the time.
Anthony Iacullo, Miller’s attorney said, “Jason vehemently denies the allegations contained in the criminal complaints against him.”
However, his past makes this denial hard to believe.
Miller should have been a registered sex offender and he should have been put in jail for abusing his police power to pull people over and show them his genitals.
However, that did not happen — and because that did not happen, this boy’s sexual assault is on the hands of Sussex County prosecutor’s and Superior Court Judge Thomas Critchley, who ‘sentenced’ Miller.
When asked about Miller’s arrest, Newton Police Chief Michael Richards said, “It’s been over two years since the first hints of his proclivities were recognized and we then took swift action to remove him from the department and hold him criminally accountable.”
But this simply is not true.
After Miller was arrested by his department, they dropped the charges against him for turning off the audio and video components of his patrol vehicle’s dashboard camera system “to conceal unprofessional and inappropriate conduct.” Because these charges were dropped, Miller was allowed to strike again — this time in a far more grave manner.
And so it goes, the blue privilege granted to officers throughout the United States allows criminal cops to walk — almost guaranteeing a repeat offense.
Galveston, TX — A Galveston Independent School District police officer, whose job was to protect students as they attended class, was arrested this week for sexually assaulting a child — possibly more than one.
Officer Victor Lee Cervantes, 30, was arrested this week after his supervisors discovered that he was having inappropriate relationships with one or more students. On Wednesday, Cervantes was charged with sexual assault of a child, two counts of improper relationship between an educator and student and online solicitation of a minor.
Apparently, his abuse was so rampant that other ISD officers noticed it and reported him to their supervisors.
According to the school superintendent, Kelli Moulton, Cervantes has been placed on administrative leave following the accusations.
Police also said that Cervantes was accused of engaging in sexual acts with at least one female child on two separate occasions. He was also caught sending sexually explicit text messages to another child, according to police.
According to the Galveston Daily News, Cervantes has since resigned and the charges are under investigation, Moulton said.
“We take this matter very seriously, and we are deeply concerned that it appears something of this nature and this seriousness has happened at one of our schools and to one of our students,” Moulton said in a news release.
Cervantes is currently in jail while being held on a bond of $35,000.
According to the Daily News, Galveston ISD board of trustees honored Cervantes for saving a student’s life during a council meeting in 2012, according to a news release on the school district’s website.
Unfortunately, school cops betraying their trust and assaulting those they are tasked with protecting is an all too common occurrence. With such a massive dependency on police in public education, this is to be expected.
As the Free Thought Project previously reported, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and published by NBC News, in the 2011-2012 school year, teachers called the cops on students a total of 31,961 times in the state of California alone, leading to 6,341 arrests.
At one California school district, in particular, East Side Union High School District in San Jose, police were called on students 1,745 times during the 2011-2012 school year. This one school called the police on students more than ten times a day!
Earlier this year, we reported on the video showing a San Antonio Independent School District police officer body slam a 12-year-old girl. In February, the Free Thought Project brought you the story of the Baltimore School cop who was seen beating a student who had done nothing wrong.
In fact, recent videos have revealed a myriad of school cops attacking unarmed students. In December, Officer Rigo Valles was cleared of any wrongdoing after grabbing a student by the neck and slamming him to the floor. In October, Richland County Deputy Ben Fields was fired after students recorded him flipping over a girl’s desk and dragging her across the floor. Oklahoma City Master Sgt. Thomas Jaha was charged with assault and battery in October as well, after repeatedly punching a student in the face for not having a hall pass.
Last November, prosecutors agreed to dismiss assault charges against Louisville Metro Police Officer Jonathan Hardin for punching a student in the face if the former officer completes anger management classes. Hardin still faces wanton endangerment, official misconduct, and assault charges for choking another student unconscious in a separate incident five days later. In separate incidents earlier this year, school cops have also been caught attacking an autistic boy, body-slamming a child, and raping nearly two dozen students.
And these are the ones the public knows about — How many more incidents, just like this one, go unreported and unpunished?
Santa Rosa County, FL — Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Agent Charles Calvin McMullen was arrested this week after two 8-year-old boys came forward with allegations that the cop repeatedly sodomized and sexually abused them.
According to police, the boys disclosed their information separately and did not know the other was coming forward.
#BREAKING: #FDLE agent, Charles C. McMullen arrested, charged with sexual assault/battery on a victim younger than 12 y/o. #C3N #NWFL
— WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) November 2, 2016
McMullen, who has been with the FDLE for five years, worked on cases with the Gulf Coast Kids House and the Santa Rosa Kids House, centers that advocate for abused children.
McMullen’s position in law enforcement allowed him easy and trusted access to the children and he was able to repeatedly rape the young boys from the time they were only 7-years-old.
The first boy came forward on October 28 to deputies with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office (SRCSO). After the 8-year-old reported McMullen had been touching him “downstairs on his private part” on a frequent basis, an investigation was launched which led to the other boy coming forward.
According to a report from WEAR,
The child said the abuse began when both children were 7-years-old. He said McMuMullen made them perform sex acts like sticking their fingers in his buttocks, putting their mouth on his penis.
The victim also said McMullen put his penis in the other child’s buttocks at least four times, the last time being October 27. He also disclosed that McMullen made him touch the other victim’s penis.
The first child’s interview detailing McMullen’s abuse mirrored the second child’s. He said some of it happened at McMullen’s home.
The first victim said when he told McMullen he didn’t like to be touched that way, McMullen would stop. However, he’d make the second victim rub his penis.
When McMullen was confronted by investigators, he reportedly began to cry and then denied touching the children sexually.
One of the boys told police that the abuse went on for so long because he was afraid to come forward because McMullen told him not to tell anyone.
He said McMullen told him this was “between you and me” and not to tell anybody because it would break up his relationship, according to the report.
In July of this year, ABC 3 actually interviewed McMullen who was investigating a man for driving around town and exposing himself to little boys.
“There was a residence in Milton that was sharing images and videos of child pornography through their social media platform,” said McMullen in July, likely admiring his fellow sicko. “Mr. Braswell indicated that he did have a sexual attraction towards children. And that he, in the past, had driven around neighborhoods in the Milton community and would expose himself to children as they would walk down the street,” McMullen said.
Since his arrest, McMullen’s bond was set at $1.5 million. However, on Wednesday that amount was reduced to only $300,000. McMullen is currently still receiving his paycheck while on administrative leave.
Schenectady, NY — A police officer’s suspension over an investigation into writing fraudulent checks has prompted a multi-agency investigation into alleged gay sex parties for police officers. While sex parties alone are not criminal, a source close to the investigation said the parties were attended by young boys who were not of legal age to drink or consent to having sex with adults.
Sgt. Jonathan E. Moore, 35, of the Schenectady police department, has been suspended after he and his boyfriend, Anthony Aubin, 27, were caught at trying to use a fraudulent check to purchase a $92,000 Jaguar. Aubin was arrested on felony charges for attempting to use the check.
However, according to a report in the Times Union, the arrest of Aubin, who has a lengthy criminal record and was recently on parole, has triggered a much broader, multi-agency police investigation into allegations that gay officers may have hosted or taken part in sex parties — called “breeding parties” — that allegedly were attended by teenagers who were not of legal age to drink alcohol or consent to having sex with adults.
Aside from the Schenectady police department investigation, the probe has spread to the Albany police department as well. As the Times reports, other departments may also become involved in the broader investigation, according to a person briefed on the matter but not authorized to comment publicly.
“I’m not really in a position to say anything about it at this point,” Albany police Chief Brendan Cox said Tuesday. “There is a case we are looking into but we are not in a position to even gauge whether or not there is any truth to what has been alleged.”
Moore also admitted to using the state-run criminal database for personal reasons to check the background of his boyfriend.
According to the report, Moore told police that he knew Aubin had a lengthy criminal record but had no idea the checks were fakes. The $92,000 check was purported to be from a Miami law office and the $15,000 check was from a fictitious company on Washington Avenue in Albany, reported the Times.
Moore told investigators that Aubin moved in with him several months ago and the couple was planning to make a lot of money because they had signed contracts with a Connecticut company called Bear Films to make gay porn movies.
In a statement on Wednesday, Schenectady police Chief Eric Clifford said Moore’s involvement in the pornography industry may have violated departmental policies, but he did not mention whether or not the officer will face charges.
Clifford said it’s “not appropriate to have him out on the street working for us.”
After Aubin was locked up, he apparently began rolling over on all his other connections in police departments. His allegations have sparked investigations into other officers who may have had unlawful sex with teenage boys.
Police officers having sex with underage victims is, unfortunately, a fairly common practice.
According to the report, around 1,000 policemen across the US had their licenses revoked and lost their jobs over the last six years on account of numerous sexual offenses that included rape and possession of child pornography.
The probe involved examining records from 41 states to see how many police officers’ licenses were revoked in 2009-2014 and for which offenses. Police desertification data was not provided by nine states and the District of Columbia. The investigation included examining the records of state and local police, sheriff’s deputies, prison guards and school resource officers. However, no federal officers were included in the investigation, meaning that number is likely higher.
