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Top cops from the Fairfax County Police Department allegedly hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for sex acts.
An unidentified woman, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, alleges that 13 officers at the Fairfax County Police Department, including a captain and the former chief, berated, threatened, and coerced a detective who began looking into the trafficking ring until he dropped the investigation altogether. During that time, Doe and other victims of the operation were forced to provide free services to some of the officers, according to the suit.
Defendants knowingly solicited and obtained commercial sex services from Jane Doe, a victim of sex trafficking, when each defendant knew or should have known that Jane Doe was made to engage in commercial sex services by means of force, fraud or coercion, the lawsuit says.
And when Fairfax Countys sex trafficking detective William Woolf found victims of the trafficking ring who said they knew cops were soliciting sex in exchange for protecting the enterprise, his captain allegedly did nothing to help.
You have six kids, the lieutenant allegedly told Woolf. You have to think about them.
Fearful of what might happen if he didnt drop the investigation, Woolf eventually gave into the demands. He agonized over the decision and cried for the first time in his professional career, according to the lawsuit.
The interruption of Woolfs police work also began around the same time Doe and other victims in the enterprise were allegedly told to provide free sex acts to officers, including Woolfs superior, in exchange for information that would protect the trafficking ring from law enforcement. The rings leader was tipped off by police thanks to the close oversight of Woolfs work, according to the lawsuit.
Woolf was eventually transferred to the Major Crimes Division and left the department entirely in 2017 to become Director of Human Trafficking Programs for the United States Department of Justice and serve several other related roles in the federal government.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vbnx/fairfax-county-virginia-police-sex-trafficking-cover-up-lawasuit
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Major Failure on Woolf's part.
Irish_Dem
(47,441 posts)Sounds like the other cops came down like bricks on this guy.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)to call the FBI, and the State Police. The other option would have gotten me prison time.
Irish_Dem
(47,441 posts)But yes these cops needed to be busted.
Get Me Outta Here
(97 posts)So little time
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Rape.
They are not performing a "commercial sex service".
They are being raped.
Now, the sex traffickers might be running a commercial sex service but the women and girls being held against their will and forced into sex slavery are not. They are victims of sex trafficking and multiple rapes.
Defendants were raping Jane Doe. And they should be charged as such.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)Qanon misses a lot of sex traffickers but they are too busy investigating pizza parlors and Wayfair and Satanic blood rituals
And yeah it looks like some cops are criminals and part of the problem. My takeaway from the article is a good cop risked his career and income to turn in the bad cops including his superiors. Dude deserves credit where it's due.
Fairfax is a wealthy educated suburb that also has problems with their elected officials selling meth and hosting orgies a few years ago. Somewhere, some suburban soccer mom is thinking these problems are confined to inner cities.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... communities apart like these people have done.