Cop Arrested for Pretending to be Child’s Mentor So He Could Violently Sexually Assault Her
A Broward County sheriff’s deputy faces felony charges after he was caught having an abusive sexual relationship with a teen girl.
By Jack Burns
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
October 26, 2017
Broward County, FL — Sheriff’s deputies in Broward County are distancing themselves from fellow police officer Leon Campbell following his arrest for pedophilia. Campbell was arrested and charged with second degree felony lewd or lascivious battery and sexual activity with a minor.
Broward police arrested Campbell after a 17-year-old teenager confessed to her high school counselor and her aunt that she’d been having a sexual relationship with the career police officer—for years. She claimed their relationship was the reason she was truant and not doing well in school.
Family members became suspicious after the teen moved in with her grandmother and began to spend hours upon hours on the phone with Campbell, who the family believed was serving as a “mentor” to their child.
The 37-year-old officer reportedly began having sex with the teen shortly after she turned 15. The sex continued up until May of this year when he was outed by the girl’s aunt who said she watched Campbell inappropriately touch the girl’s breast at a family gathering and then lie about it, saying he was checking the girl’s temperature.
Campbell was jailed on Oct. 19, and released on Oct. 20, after he posted a $15,000 bond. But staying out of jail will likely be his main goal as prosecutors are seeking to put him behind bars for up to 15 years. The age of consensual sex in Florida is 18. While there are some provisions to allow for teens to have sex without criminal prosecution when both consenting individuals are near the same age, Campbell was no teenager.
Not only is Campbell 20 years older than the girl, he is an officer of the law, tasked with jailing the type of individual he became. Instead of protecting the child from sexual predators, he allegedly victimized the troubled teen, all the while pretending to be her mentor.
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