Prosecutors will charge seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area police officers in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a teenager. The prosecutor said she needs the teen to provide testimony in the case. O’Malley said the officers who will be charged are former Contra Costa sheriff’s deputy Ricardo Perez; former Livermore officer Dan Black; Oakland officers Brian Bunton, Giovani LoVerde and Warit Utappa; and former Oakland officers Tyrell Smith and Leroy Johnson. The now 19-year-old said she had sex with four of the officers before she turned 18 and sometimes traded sex for protection from arrest or tips about planned prostitution stings. Critics had questioned why officers haven’t faced criminal charges and yet the woman is incarcerated at a local jail for aggravated battery charges.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2016 20:38 UTC