Cop Tasked With Helping Child Sex Crime Victims Arrested for Raping a Child Victim he was ‘Helping’
A detective assigned to the department’s child sex crimes unit—whose job was to help child victims—has been arrested for allegedly raping one of those victims.
By Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
November 20, 2018
Los Angeles, CA — A disturbing case of police rape has surfaced out of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department this week as a detective assigned to handle victims of child molestation cases was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The girl was a victim in a case the officer was investigating and had already been raped by someone else.
Detective Neil Kimball, 45, was assigned to the Special Victims Bureau, a unit tasked with investigation cases of sex crimes against children. Kimball was arrested on Friday on suspicion of rape by force and “preventing or dissuading a witness or victim from testifying,” said Nicole Nishida, spokeswoman for the department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Given the number of victims Kimball has had contact with in the past, this case has caused grave concern at the department. According to the LA Times, Kimball has investigated dozens of child molestation cases in the last 5 years as a member of the elite specialized unit.
“The investigation and arrest resulted from information provided to the department by a member of the public,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
The department kept the arrest on Friday under wraps and made no mention of it until Monday.
Adding to the insidious nature of the case is the fact that this is not the first time Kimball has been accused of sexual misconduct on the job.
As the LA Times reports, Kimball was investigated previously, after a woman told the Sheriff’s Department in February 2009 that Kimball had grabbed her hand several months earlier and tried to make her touch his genitals, according to a memo from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Prosecutors ultimately declined to charge Kimball in the case.
The above allegations were made in 2009 and despite the evidence against him—although it didn’t lead to a conviction—Kimball was allowed to join the special victims unit to deal with child victims of sexual assault.
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