Posted on 07/08/2005 2:15:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
LOS ANGELES -- A 15-year Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested for allegedly committing illegal sex acts with a teenage boy.
Officer George Stan, 36, was taken into custody Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport. LAPD officers and FBI agents met Stan when he returned from vacation.
He is accused of multiple sex acts involving a 15-year-old boy over the past three years. He was booked for "oral copulation with a minor."
According to an LAPD statement, "The investigation disclosed multiple illegal sexual acts involving Stan and a 15-year-old male victim. The acts occurred in the city of Simi Valley over the past three years."
Stan was arrested following a task-force investigation by the LAPD's Professional Standards Bureau and the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team.
Stan has been assigned to the Devonshire Police Station since 1991. He has been a youth services officer for about one year. He also worked with the Explorer program.
In a statement, LAPD Chief William Bratton said:
"Every effort will be made to determine the full extent of Stan's activities. I am gratified by the task force's thorough investigation and the victim's courage in coming forward.
"I want to apologize personally and on behalf of the department to the victim and his family for the violation of trust that we allege was committed by Officer Stan.
"The Explorer Program is one of the best youth programs around, and we will be looking to add additional safeguards to protect its membership."
Bond was set at $2.5 million.
Investigators said there might be other victims.
Suprise! A homosexual pedophile.
Of course, you have to dig through the article to figure that out.
Jeeesh! A child molester and a cop. I bet he will have a real good time in prison.
The child was 12 years old when this began? He should go to jail for the rest of his life. Seriously.
Not a pedophile if he's doing a 15-year-old. Just a run of the mill homosexual male.
I've read that the push for "affirmative action" has swamped the big city PD's with thugs, druggies, and perverts being forced into the ranks.
Liberalism at its best.
Why should the kid go to jail?
Would you think that if the 15-year old were your son? He started molesting the child 3 years ago.
Just in case this is a serious question, It is the adult offender who should go to jail for the rest of his life.
I've read that the push for "affirmative action" has swamped the big city PD's with thugs, druggies, and perverts being forced into the ranks.
Liberalism at its best.
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The city near where I live has had that problem for years. They either aren't permitted (thanks to law enforcement union rules) to run background checks, or if they do and the checks show something negative, the cities are forced to take these candidates anyway, thanks to affirmative action and all those civil rights do-gooders out there.
KaliPornia Hummmmmm...
More like the push for more more more police. It seems the only thing politicians of all stripes can agree on is that we can never have too many cops on the public dole.
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Of course I would. If a chickenhawk abused my son, I'd want the creep dead. What difference does calling him a "pedophile" make? A 12-year-old boy is an adolescent (almost always) not a child. It's simply a matter of definition.
If it makes you feel better to call him a pedophile, go ahead. However, it obscures the fact that molesting teenage boys is common for homosexual men, not the sort of fringe behavior implied by "pedophile."
You want, by implication, to say all homosexuals practice pedophilia. There are two groups of people who in many cases may overlap. In this case, it appears the cop is homosexual (his sexual preference) and a pedophile (interested in 12 year olds).
You want to define the crime commited on the victim, by looking at the preditors sexual preference, that is nuts. If it was a 12 year old girl, would he be a pedophile?
Depends on whether the 12-year-old girl was post-pubescent. Plenty of 12-year-olds are taller and more "robust" than I am.
It's inexcusable criminal behavior, whatever word you use. IIRC, "ephebophile" was the term used for men sexually attracted to adolescent boys, rather than prepubescent children.
Oh, woulde tyhis ever perplex my liberal friends. Is he a homosexual or is he a pedophile??? Because, of course, we all know he cant be both. ( ahem...)
I will settle on Pederast.
p.s. I win, mine shows up in the dictionay!
UH, despite what MTV may say, 15 year olds are children and protected as such.
Don't become part of the pedophile problem by repeating pro-pervert information. I know they may seem to be big enough to be adults but they are not.
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