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What excuse will cops have for one of their own ?

A POLICE officer is starting a 30-month prison sentence after molesting a 14-year-old girl he met on the internet. Former PC James Hunter hung his head in shame at Teesside Crown Court as Judge George Moorhouse branded him "an evil and devious man who was anxious to take advantage of this young girl". Hunter, of Colenso Street, Hartlepool, has since been disowned by his wife of 26 years and his sons, and has also lost his job as an officer in Stokesley with North Yorkshire Police, the court heard. The court heard how Hunter videoed himself performing a sex act for the girl, while talking to her on an internet chatroom for teenagers. Days later, the 49-year-old met up with the girl in Darlington and drove her to a secluded lay-by where he molested her. Prosecuting, Shaun Dodds said the deputy head of a school contacted police after a pupil told a teacher she had been picked up by a male and encouraged to engage in sex acts. "She said she communicated with James Hunter on a teenage internet chatroom," he added. "After three to four weeks they exchanged mobile numbers. She told him she was 14 and at school, and he told her he was a 45-year-old engineer who lived on Teesside." Hunter admitted to causing a child to look at a sex act, sexual activity with a child, and 15 charges of making indecent photographs and videos of a child between January 2005 and August, last year. Mitigating, Paul Currer said: "He fully accepts responsibility for the terrible consequences of his actions. "It's a matter of his deepest regret that he has had a devastating effect upon the young girl's life, and not only her life, but the life of her family." Hunter was jailed for 30 months. He will be put on the sex offenders' register for life, and was banned from working with any children under 18 for the rest of his life. Judge Moorhouse said: "With you being a serving police officer, this is a serious matter for you in your privileged position to behave in the way you did." Officer molested girl. Mother says police harassed them. Plainfield Township's police chief covered up the fact that one of his officers molested a teenager, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. The suit says Plainfield police frequently showed up at the victim's house to intimidate, threaten and harass the victim and her mother after she asked Chief Dean Ceraul to investigate Officer Christopher Young. Young was sentenced Friday to 10 to 36 months in state prison for molesting the victim, who is 16 now and was 14 at the time of the abuse. The victim and her mother lived in Pen Argyl at the time of the molestation but now live in Palmer Township, the suit says. The suit, filed Sunday, says Ceraul accepted Young's denial of the crime despite repeated pleas by the mother for an investigation. Police followed the mother, pulled her over and parked outside her house for no reason, the suit says. The mother's name is being withheld by The Express-Times to protect the identity of the teen assault victim. After state police and the Northampton County District Attorney launched an investigation, they found Young's semen in the victim's underwear, the suit says. The suit says Young denied having sex with the child by falsely claiming he had sex with her mother and suggesting the daughter and mother must share underwear. Young eventually pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault. A message left for a Dean Ceraul listed in Pen Argyl was not returned Tuesday. Plainfield Township solicitor David Backenstoe did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday. The suit says Young defamed the victim's mother by claiming he had sex with her. In Northampton County Court on Friday, Young said the victim forced him to have sex with her by threatening to tell his wife he was having an extramarital affair with the victim's mother. The suit says the victim suffers from physical pain and emotional trauma. She was forced to drop out of school and study with a private tutor after she was molested, the suit says. Young pleaded no contest to charges he lied about his certification when he was hired as a Plainfield police officer in 2002. He resigned as a police officer March 5 of this year and has yet to be sentenced on a charge of unsworn falsification. He previously worked as a special police officer -- with no arrest powers -- in Clinton Township and Lebanon Borough in Hunterdon County. The suit says the Allentown Police Academy, the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission and the commission's administrative officer E. Beverly Young all failed to prevent Young from being hired as a police officer even though he was not certified. Messages left with the training commission and police academy were not returned Tuesday evening. Nor was a message left for Young at the training commission.

Public Comments

There is no excuse for this sick man- no he's less than a man. He will get his in return and well deserves it. --10 year officer
Should be no one making up excuses for him. What he did is plain wrong. One must remember that police officers are people some of them go bad and unfortunately it gives all of us a bad image. There is no excuse for his actions any more then there is for any other person who does this.
He lied about his cetification to become a police officer. He was convicted and sentenced. So, he is no longer, and really never was "one of our own." He got what he deserved.
If this is true there is no excuse for his actions there is however a warm seat in hell for him.
Obviously cops are held under a microscope much of the time. This knucklehead deserves what he gets. Is that the excuse you were looking for? My question to you...why do you post a news article about a cop? I'm guessing you have issues with cops and are simply trying to prove your point that all are bad. How about a legitimate question that, in it of itself, does not bash? You probably can't come up with one.
The "man" was never "one of our own".
they lie and say anything. It's all they do
Hey Angie, wake up and get off the bong if that's all you think of. As for the dude in the article, hope some one let's his cellie know he's a "Mo". As in child-MOlester. They tend to help him see the error of his ways.
There are no excuses for criminals, of any type. Hope this helps.
I just think it's funny that you spent all that time typing all that stuff out thinking you had some deep question and a point just for the cops to shrug and agree that the perv should be in jail regardless of what his job used to be (like most people). Man, I can't stop laughing! What an exciting life you must lead! Hey, can you do another one on a teacher or a politician next? Oh, or even a fire fighter. Keep up the good work. I have a feeling you have nothing better to do! LOL.
Cops will come up with any excuse they can think of to cover one of their own. The conspiracy of silence is one of the worst. I find it hard to believe this was the first time for this guy. Just as I find it hard to believe hat other cops did not know or suspect that he was sexually deviant. Worst of all almost every cop that defends cops on this site has stated that the screening process is so good that only a few slip through the cracks. All this guy did was lie about his certification to get hired. That is not a screening process and shows that the cops here lie to cover their for own. Just like Whitehall WI sexual predator cop Daniel Wineski was covered for by cop and he originally got his certification from the DNR. Screening is a joke a lie and a crime against the public.