20 years ago GOP Candidate stood by while teen age girl was illegally strip searched!

[Liberal_in_LA]

A woman who was assaulted as a teenager by a police officer under the supervision of a current Republican Massachusetts House candidate is speaking out.

''He had to hear me screaming and crying. Instead of helping me, Jeff Perry denied anything happened,'' said Lisa Allen, in a statement to the Boston Globe.

Perry is the GOP hopeful in Massachusetts' 10th Congressional District. Almost 20 years ago, an officer under his command named Scott Flanagan confessed to and was convicted of assaulting Allen and another girl. Perry initially denied that any assault occurred, but thereafter quickly disappeared from the force.


"Perry did not care about protecting teenaged girls in Wareham from police officer Flanagan,'' Allen said. ''Jeff Perry cared only about protecting police officer Flanagan.''

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The events occurred May 22, 1991, when Allen and three boys were socializing around two parked cars when three police cruisers pulled up, according to a Wareham police report. Perry, the patrol supervisor that night; Flanagan; and another officer, Stephen Kearney, approached the teenagers.

Perry and Flanagan found that one of the boys had marijuana and arrested him. Flanagan asked Allen if she had any drugs, then ordered her to lift her top and bra and then unbutton her pants, according to a transcript of Flanagan's guilty plea. Allen asked that she be searched by a female officer and began screaming and yelling when Flanagan went ahead anyway.

"Without any warning or notice to the victim, the defendant then put his hand down the front of her jeans inside her underwear feeling that area of her body," prosecutors said in outlining the charges, to which Flanagan then pleaded guilty.

No drugs were found.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/10/breaking_silenc.html