Cop Convicted of Making Child Porn Given $56K by Dept & Allowed to Retire
A police detective who pleaded guilty to creating and distributing child pornography was paid $56,000 by his department before he was allowed to retire.
By Rachel Blevins
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
December 24, 2017
When a police officer is found creating child pornography involving girls as young as 13 years old, and he pleads guilty to sexually exploiting a child in court, it may seem logical that he would be fired from his department. However, in the case of one detective, he received more than $56,000 in back pay and was allowed to retire.
Harry McCarthy, 57, was a detective for the police department in Ogdensburg, New York, for 30 years. His career came to a halt in 2015, after his conduct became the topic of a joint investigation by the New York State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
McCarthy was indicted in 2016 by a federal grand jury on charges of sexually exploiting a child for the purpose of creating child pornography and for distributing, receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography. He is also facing state felony charges of “possessing and promoting a sexual performance of a child after he allegedly uploaded a picture to his personal e-mail account of a young girl having sex with an adult male,” according to a report WWNYTV News.
The alleged conduct took place in 2013 and 2014, and the indictment claims that McCarthy groomed a 13-year-old girl and persuaded her to engage in “sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating images.”
New York Upstate reported that McCarthy was arrested “after Google alerted authorities that an image depicting child pornography had been uploaded through its servers.” Investigators were able to trace the image to McCarthy’s home, and after executing a search, they found the images on his laptop.
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