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Cop Charged with Molesting 3 Young Children Flexes Blue Privilege: He Won’t Do Any Jail Time

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Manatee County, FL — A former Manatee County Sheriff’s Lieutenant escapes jail time for his sadistic and sickening acts against three children, after pleading to a lesser charge.

In May of 2013 Dale Couch was arrested after children told authorities what Couch had done to them.

He was charged two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under age 12 and a third charge of lewd and lascivious molestation against a 12-year-old child.

According to reports, initially, the 12-year-old girl said Couch had inappropriately touched her once.

“She said that while he was over her (in her bed) yelling and cussing at her, he grabbed her breasts with his hands,” according to the arrest report.

Then in March, the counselor came forward to report additional allegations. The girl had stated that Couch had also inappropriately touched her private areas on multiple other occasions while she sat on his lap. The 9-year-old victim had reported similar allegations, with a third child also interviewed who reportedly witnessed such instances on multiple occasions.

According to the 12-year-old girl, she did not want to disclose anything because she was terrified that Couch “would do more than he was already doing.”

The Harold-Tribune reported that when Couch first heard of the allegations he became so enraged that he punched a door in his home, knocking it completely off the hinges. Both of the victims were present during this display.

The girl said Couch told her when she was younger not to tell anyone about the touching, because it would “break her mother’s heart,” he would be arrested and then lose his career.

According to his arrest report, Couch claimed that all three children made up the allegations. He blamed the victims claiming they had been coached into making up these statements.

However, all of the allegations and initial charges against Couch are irrelevant now because of a defunct justice system that protects its own.

Last week, Couch pleaded no contest to battery — a lesser included charge on count three. The other other charges were dropped, Assistant State Attorney Dawn Buff said.

He was sentenced to 12 months probation, anger management courses and he cannot contact the child victims in the case. It is unclear at this point whether or not he will keep his peace officer’s license.

The children will now grow up knowing that the man who committed these disgusting acts against them will face no consequences for his actions. Now they will have to worry about all the threats that he made toward them if they spoke out.

It seems that America has 2 different justice systems, one for those who work in or control that system, and everyone else.

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Woman testifies about alleged sex abuse by former Modesto police sergeant



The defendant is a former Modesto police sergeant. Hodges was a 15-year veteran of the department and was working patrol when he was arrested Oct. 22, 2012. He no longer works for the department, and he remains free on bail.

A 19-year-old woman broke into tears while on the witness stand Friday when she was asked to point to her father, the defendant accused of sexually abusing her when she was 15 years old.

“Sorry, I didn’t think this would be so hard,” the young woman said while wiping away tears with a tissue.

Robert Hodges, 42, is charged with seven felonies in connection with the alleged abuse. He also is charged with two misdemeanor counts of failing to comply with a court order not to contact the alleged victim or her immediate family.

Kirk McAllister, Hodges’ attorney, has told the jury his client is innocent. He said Hodges and his ex-wife were in the middle of a heated separation when she threatened to ruin the defendant. Not long after, the allegations of sex abuse surfaced.

Testimony in the trial began Friday morning with the alleged victim, referred to in court as Jane Doe.

She testified that the abuse began one day when she was home sick, lying on the living room couch and watching TV. Hodges was the only other person home. She said he started massaging her right side before he started groping her. Then, he used his hand to sexually molest her, according to the woman.

“I just laid there in shock. I didn’t do anything, I just went with it,” she said while crying on the witness stand. She said it stopped at some point, and she got up from the couch and left.

She told the jury the sexual abuse worsened, occurring about once or twice a month over several months. In one incident, she said, her brother had walked into the living room when he saw her straddling Hodges on the couch.




Her brother, who was younger than 10, asked if they were wrestling. They said they were; their bottom halves were beneath a blanket. The boy stayed in the living room playing video games for about 15 minutes before Hodges said it was time to tuck them into bed.

Jane Doe testified that Hodges later came into her bedroom, leaving the door slightly open. She said his wife was in her bedroom and the defendant had shut the door to his son’s bedroom. She said Hodges got into her bed and had intercourse with her, which was her first time.

Jane Doe testified that almost every time he was done abusing her, Hodges would apologize and tell her it was a mistake. She said he told her that if anyone ever found out a police officer was sexually abusing his daughter, people would think she was weird and he would lose his job.

She told the jury that Hodges would tell her, “‘If you tell anyone, it will ruin the family.’ ... Over and over, every single instance.”

The abuse stopped at the end of her freshman year in high school, Jane Doe testified. She didn’t speak about the alleged abuse. She said she felt brainwashed, under his control, and she didn’t want to harm her family. “This is a horrible burden,” she said about the alleged abuse.




She said she revealed the abuse during an argument in a family car ride home from Sacramento. That was about a year and a half after the alleged abuse stopped.

Hodges was upset his daughter was texting a man who was 20 years old, divorced and in the Navy, Jane Doe said. She said her father knew she wanted to date this man, whom she had known since her freshman year when they went to high school together.

After Hodges took away her cellphone, she told him he wasn’t anyone to tell her whom to date. Then, she said, she revealed the abuse in front of her mother. It was Jan. 2, 2012, and Jane Doe was a junior in high school.

Jane Doe testified that she remembers Hodges saying he and his daughter had “‘messed around. It’s over now, it’s not going to happen anymore.’”

At home, she discussed the issue again with her mother and father. She said Hodges told her they couldn’t go to the police, before telling her he was sorry and he wasn’t going to do it again. She testified that her mother stayed quiet and seemed to be agreeing with him.

Jane Doe said she didn’t tell police about the abuse until Oct. 22, 2012. She testified that her mother told her she was going to the police. Jane Doe said she pleaded with her mother not to, but her mother convinced her they needed to seek help.

The girl was questioned at the Stanislaus Family Justice Center in Modesto. Modesto police Detective Martha Delgado arranged for Jane Doe to call Hodges. The phone call was recorded and the audio was played for the jury Friday afternoon.

“The plan was for him to admit that he raped and molested me,” Jane Doe said about the recorded phone call. She said the detective was about 5 feet away in the room and didn’t listen in on the call.

During the phone call, Hodges promised her he was never going to do anything to harm her, and he suggested to her that she not say anything to authorities. He told her, “You know what happens if you say anything like that, right?” He went on to tell her, “I go away, if convicted, I go away to prison, which I will be convicted, I go away to prison for the next 30 years. I’m 40 years old and that means by the time I’m out, I’ll be about 70. ... I would go behind bars and you would never, ever see me again.”

Jane Doe told her father what he did to her was horrible and she was afraid the cycle of sexual abuse would continue. “It’ll come back to haunt me and it’ll just keep getting worse and worse,” she told him.

When she asked him why he did it, Hodges told her that he wished he could explain it. He told Jane Doe that they can work on their relationship as a family with her brother.

“How can I trust my dad? Honestly, how can I trust you after what you did?” she asked Hodges. Jane Doe said Hodges then hung up the phone shortly after.

Testimony in the trial is expected to resume Wednesday in Stanislaus Superior Court.

Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article10161950.html#storylink=cpy

 

Powerful thread.

 

Smoking crack on duty?

I guess it was her 'training day'

 

This thread is all win

 

But the article in the original post doesn't offer any support for its notion that police are somehow treated differently than other offenders. I've represented literally hundreds of sexually abused children and -- at least in my state -- the reduced sentence and probation that the cop got in the article is in reality more justice than the norm. Everyone in the child protective services business knows that sexual offenses against children are rarely prosecuted. You can readily get a no-contact order (order of protection) in civil court, but prosecutors don't like to pursue these cases criminally cause the standards of proof are higher, and historically children witnesses - especially really young ones - are very problematic. Not to mention the offender's right to confront the accuser ... sometimes the DA uses the excuse that making the child testify is not worth it. It's really frustrating but, statistically, for every terrible story like the ones in this thread, there's hundreds more strong cases of abuse that you don't hear about cause they don't even get to a plea deal.
I'm not denying that there's a "defunct justice system that protects its own"; I'm only saying that the article doesn't offer any info as to how it reached that conclusion.

 

I think that's true of all cases, actually. Jury trials themselves are major, major gambles especially if you're a defendant. There are plenty of folks who plead to things that they may not have done just because the risk of going to trial and being found guilty is too great. If I'm facing three counts of Aggravated Child Molestation (each count carries a life sentence in Georgia) but I can plead to the reduced charge of Sexual Battery (which carries a max of five years, most likely on probation), I'd have to be insane to not at least consider it, especially if I've been sitting in jail for a while. And if you're convicted at trial there aren't too many judges who won't run those counts consecutively.

On the other hand, I've seen some cases involving child molestation and abuse get to a jury that had no business being indicted, let alone tried. But those are different stories for a different day...some prosecutors go way too far in the other direction and believe that if a child said then it must be true.

 

Cop Caught With Hard Drives Full of Child Porn, Won’t Be Charged Because of a Typo


Dane County, WI — A Dane County sheriff’s deputy miraculously escaped charges of child pornography, despite being caught with child pornography, because of a cut and paste error on a warrant.

In a tragic example of the broken “justice” system, former Dane County sheriff’s deputy Jeffrey C. Hilgers, 43, had seven counts of possession of child pornography dismissed Wednesday. The judge ruled that there was a fatal cut-and-paste error on a search warrant, thereby making the discovery of the illegal images on the deputy’s computers, inadmissible.

According to the report, investigators inadvertently used a paragraph, which stated they were searching for child pornography, instead of one specifying the search was for evidence in an illicit relationship between Hilgers and a woman serving a jail sentence at home on electronic monitoring.

The error was insurmountable, Dane County Circuit Judge John Markson said, so he had to suppress the search warrant along with a subsequent search warrant that was issued after child pornography was initially discovered, which led to the discovery of even more child pornography.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported:

Hilgers was charged in August with sexual assault by correctional staff and seven counts of possessing child pornography. A criminal complaint states that Hilgers and the woman met while she was in jail in 2013 and he was a jail deputy, and that they began dating after meeting again following her placement in a home electronic monitoring program.

Hilgers’ lawyer, Brian Hough, asked that the sexual assault charge be dismissed, but Markson on Wednesday denied the motion.

Markson found, however, that a search warrant used to search Hilgers’ home for evidence of the relationship, along with a second search warrant to examine computers for additional child pornography, had to be suppressed. And with the suppression of those two warrants, the seven counts of child pornography were dismissed.

“I do think that likely what happened was a result of cutting and pasting by using a warrant from a different case that involved child pornography,” Markson said.

The loophole that allowed Hilgers to walk is almost as staggering as the coincidence of finding child pornography, while accidentally searching for child pornography.

Or is it? Could it be that law enforcement has a higher rate of sexual misconduct than the rest of the population?

 

Totally agree: It definitely works both ways - hence the negotiated settlement. It's poker. Each player evaluates his cards, sizes up his opponent, does a risk/loss assessment, and decides to either go all in or fold. I'm just not seeing where the article makes the case that cops have a "blue privilege." No doubt they probably do, but the article doesn't offer any evidence of it. Like if they said "Statistics show cops are ten times less likely to be prosecuted than civilians ..." then we would have a reason to think there's something off. But the journalist doesn't say anything like that. For all we know the system might be MORE hard on cops. The article just doesn't offer any distinction between treatment of cops vis-a-vis everyone else. It's a sensational story (and therefore makes press) because the child abuser happens to be a cop. People get more upset when the cop gets away with it. As if it matters to the kid if her rapist was a cop or just her neighbor. Or Pee Wee Herman. Or her neighbor who happens to be Pee Wee Herman dressed as a cop.

 

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with what you're saying at all. I don't doubt for a second that some officers get away with things that the average person wouldn't even dare to try *cough* narcs *cough* but the article seems to proceed on the assumption that cops automagically get special treatment just for being cops. It's definitely a lot more sensationalized than it has to be without anything of substance to really support that assumption.

 

Too funny. Love it

 

Cop Passed Out and Drunk Behind Wheel, Doesn’t Get Arrested and Gets Paid Leave



IOWA CITY — A police officer with the City of Iowa has been granted administrative leave with pay after he was caught drunk driving.

According to reports, Officer Carlos Trevino was so drunk that he appeared to be literally passed out at the wheel.

The car was rolling over the centerline at an intersection with the engine running while Officer Trevino appeared to have little or no control of the vehicle from being so intoxicated.

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When other motorists reported Officer Trevino, his fellow officers showed up to the scene and noted that he had “very slurred speech and a very strong scent of consumed alcohol.”

The report further notes that it was hard for Officer Trevino to keep his balance, and he was so drunk that he was unable to tell officers where he was at the moment.

A breath examination demonstrated that Officer Trevino had a blood alcohol level of .197, far surpassing the legal limit of .08.

However, rather than arresting Officer Trevino, his fellow officers escorted him to a hospital to sober up.

He was not arrested and taken to jail, but allowed to go to a hospital.

Later, he was allowed to turn himself in for the incident.

Police Chief Diane Venenga claims that the treatment of Officer Trevino was “not a professional courtesy.”

“We’d do that for anybody,” she says.

Many have a hard time believing that, however, and chalk this up as another case of government-privilege. Had Office Trevino been a lowly ordinary citizen passed out and drunk behind his wheel, who knows what would have happened.

Officer Trevino was booked at the Johnson County Jail on Wednesday, but was released a mere 10 minutes later, according to reports.

He is currently receiving pay on administrative leave while the department conducts an “internal investigation.”


But but but, their isn't no blue privledge, they get treated harsher #delusional

 

Cop Chains Innocent Man to Wall, Beats Him, Gouges Eyes After Refusing to Confess to a Crime

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Milwaukee, WI — In August of 2013 former detective Rodolfo Gomez savagely beat Deron Love during an interrogation. He was chained to the wall.

Love, 27, was accused of killing his 7-month-old baby, a charge he would not confess to and one that he would eventually beat.

A year after being tortured by Gomez, Love was found not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and child neglect in the death of his infant son.

Love’s innocence was of no matter to Gomez who repeatedly compelled him to confess.

After becoming tired of being told to confess to a crime that he did not commit, Love became agitated and began screaming in the face of Gomez. Gomez, then “feared for his safety” as the man, who was chained to a wall yelled at him. So he began to beat the restrained man – savagely.

There are two videos of Gomez’s interaction with Love. In the first video, Gomez is seen unleashing multiple punches and knee blows to the face and head of Love.

In the second video, both of Love’s hands are chained to the wall. Seeing the opportunity to inflict more pain, Gomez then began gouging Love’s eyes out. The screams are hard to bare.

Gomez was subsequently fired for this despicable behavior. However, he is now appealing.

Earlier this month, using a controversial tactic of slow-motion video presentation, the defense was somehow able to convince a jury that Gomez actually “feared for his safety.”

The defense broke the video down, frame by frame, and used cherry-picked images to sway the jury into believing their ridiculous self-defense stance.

Sadly, the jury was eventually convinced.

What do you think? Watch the graphic video below and tell us in the comments if you think Gomez’s safety was ever in danger.

 

Great pics. Speak volumes.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Homan-Square-dubbed-domestic-black-site.html

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ng-a-man-and-falsely-accusing-him-of-assault/

 

Shame shame shame! I want to go on record and say I do not hate the police, I've never even had an single problem with the police for the most part in my life but a couple bad apples truly ruin it for the rest. The police need to be better policed.

I just seen an video unloaded a turrent of rounds at an old man reaching for his cane. Just imagine if everyday citizens "feared for their lives" like police officers, this would be the wild wild west all over again.

Better policing can start with an offical police officer blacklisting so fired officers of bad conduct can never be hired again as police officers.