Utah cop showed off explicit photos of sextortion victim who was later murdered

NY Post ^ | May 17, 2020 | Lee Brown

[Arones]

A Utah cop kept explicit photos of a terrified college track star who was being sextorted by her ex — and showed them off to a colleague just days before the young athlete was murdered, according to his force and a damning report Sunday.

University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, 21, went to campus cops in October 2018 because she was so scared of her blackmailer — twisted ex Melvin Rowland, 37, a registered sex offender — she had already paid an initial $1,000 demand, the Salt Lake Tribune said.

Officer Miguel Deras then saved the explicit images onto his personal phone, showing at least one male colleague — and bragging about being able to ogle them at any time, according to the Tribune’s investigation.

Just nine days after she reported the case, McCluskey was shot dead by Rowland — who then killed himself the same day.

“The people who were supposed to be helping and protecting Lauren were actually exploiting her,” the murdered student’s outraged mother, Jill McCluskey, told the paper.

“I wish that Deras had used his time to arrest the man who was committing crimes against Lauren.”

McCluskey’s parents had last year already filed a $56 million lawsuit over the police handling of the case. An independent review found Deras did little to investigate the case even when the victim reported attempts to lure her out of her dorm, the paper said.

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Gerard Schaefer was 'gotten rid of' by several police departments, and promptly hired by other departments.

No one really knows exactly how many girls he tortured raped murdered and ate.

No repercussions what-so-ever for the government drones who hired him knowing full well that he was bad enough for other departments to kick him out.

If you won't listen to the whole Dr. Clarissa Cole interview, at least listen starting at 1:18:13 in through 1:23:29, pretty please?

[Moltke]

OK, I’ll give it listen, just because you asked nicely. :)

But we’re not really on different pages here, I think, especially as far as your point in para. 3 goes, but you introduce a new perp here. They knew *beforehand* this guy Schaefer was bad? Yeah, hold them fully accountable as accessories. Does Dr. Cole discuss this guy? Guess I’ll find out when I go to the interview.

My point was/is that I wouldn’t trust the shrinks *before* anyone actually turned out to be bad. Sucks to take the risk, but I believe the alternative would be even worse.

[sport]

Yep!Being fired don’t mean shit. They just go down the road or they are hired back the next day.