Alabama state trooper charged in child rape hid checkered FBI past

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An Alabama state trooper arrested on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid sexual assault allegations but was hired anyway with the apparent help of a forged letter that scrubbed his record clean,

AP: Trooper charged in child rape hid checkered FBI past
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama state trooper arrested last week on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations but was hired...
apnews.com
2:13 PM · May 5, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-montgomery-new-orleans-alabama-police-8bd9d4cbe11cac4630e7057019d139a4

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama state trooper arrested last week on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations but was hired by the state agency with the apparent help of a fake bureau letter that scrubbed his record clean.

An Associated Press investigation found Christopher Bauer was suspended without pay and stripped of his security clearance in the FBI’s New Orleans office in late 2018 — effectively fired — amid allegations that included a co-worker’s claim that he raped her at knifepoint.

But Alabama authorities either overlooked or were unaware of that history. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the state police, told AP that it conducted a “full and thorough” investigation into Bauer’s background when he applied to be a trooper in 2019 and that “no derogatory comments were uncovered by former employers.”

Bauer indicated on his application that he was still employed by the FBI and had never been dismissed or forced to resign because of disciplinary action. And the state’s law enforcement credentialing commission provided AP a copy of a letter — purportedly from FBI headquarters — that makes no mention of Bauer’s ouster, confirms his decade of “creditable service” and deems him “eligible for rehire.”

“The letter is not legitimate,” the FBI said in a statement to the AP on Wednesday. Bureau officials would not say who they believe forged the letter.

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1. WTF!

Fired from the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations that included a co-worker's claim that he raped her at knife point? If only his prior employer had contacted an investigating law enforcement agency to verify these claims and prosecuted him, that 11 yr. old girl wouldn't had become a victim of this POS. Do you think the FBI might have been concerned with how this would make them look if it were known that they had allowed a rapist to slip through their hiring evaluation process? This needs investigated. I mean WTF!!