Posted on 02/09/2005 4:50:31 PM PST by SmithL
After a San Jose police officer pleaded guilty this morning to allegations that he molested his 11-month-old daughter, attorneys in the case described for the first time the videotaped evidence of the incident that led to his arrest last week.
Stephen Gallagher, 49, was arrested on Feb. 2 after the child's mother reported the encounter that occurred the night before, while Gallagher was babysitting, at her home in unincorporated Morgan Hill.
Deputy District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said the mother installed a security camera commonly known as a "nanny cam'' because she suspected Gallagher of drinking alcohol around their daughter.
Addressing for the first time what the video showed, Gibbons-Shapiro said today that Gallagher allowed his daughter to touch his penis with her hands and mouth.
"There really was no defense in this case because there was videotape evidence,'' Gibbons-Shapiro said. "Our only hope is that as the child grows up, this event doesn't make it hard for her in any way.''
Defense attorney Dan Jensen maintains that Gallagher had no criminal intent and that the video is somewhat ambiguous.
Jensen said the two-hour video shows Jensen watching television, feeding his daughter and changing her diapers. At some point Gallagher reportedly unzipped his pants and partially pulled them down, exposing himself to the girl.
The child walked up to Gallagher without any provocation, Jensen said. He said Gallagher did not encourage the encounter, but did not prevent it, either.
Gallagher was not drinking at the time of the incident and does not have any issues with alcoholism, according to Jensen.
Jensen said the decision to enter the guilty pleas today was made because he felt a jury would convict his client due to the nature of the crime and the evidence.
"A jury would be outraged,''
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This guy was BABYSITTING for his own child . . . in the child's mother's home . . . and the doting mother installed a secret camera because she figured he was drinking on the job??? Evidently this is what family life in the Blue States has become.
F'n kill him!
Defense attorney Dan Jensen maintains that Gallagher had no criminal intent and that the video is somewhat ambiguous
Mr. Jensen should find a new occupation!
The child will be able to forget it --- I don't think anyone remembers stuff from that young, BUT, that won't stop the Rita Cosbys and Geraldo Riveras of the world from maybe someday asking the poor little girl about it---
I think you picked the wrong thread for your outrage..What this father did was despicable.
Could you imagine the mother watching that video?
The anguish she must feel.....
Yes, throw away that key!
HUH??? What I'm saying is that child-molesting is just one more (and a very small) step from the rest of the picture here. It's perfectly consistent with it. It's as if this guy were just one of the numerous "boyfriends" who populate these child-molesting stories rather than the biological father of the kid. The more family life deteriorates in this country, the more we'll see of this same sort of behavior.
Get a rope.
6 months in GP should do the trick.
Former badge pedophiles do well there I understand...
I thought you were objecting to her videotaping him.
Just like the couple that starved and tortured their five children in Florida are just your standard Red-State Americans.
I cannot imagine the thoughts that were running through this perverts head, allowing to let his daughter to touch him!
No Ma'am, he is a pedophile and worse, he perpetrated these acts on his own child. God only knows how far this would have gone had he not been exposed for what he obviously is. No amount of Cherry Picking this guy's character and life can excuse this behavior so you see, he is one of the BAD guys.
This man should be put on the Megan's Law List. Anyone who would do such a thing to an innocent baby is a satanic pervert.
Cop and child molestor...I'd expect the other inmates will not be making his stay pleasant.
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