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Cop Who Resigned After Groping College Student Landed New Job Investigating Sexual Assaults [View all]
https://jezebel.com/cop-who-resigned-after-groping-college-student-landed-n-1849813781Cop Who Resigned After Groping College Student Landed New Job Investigating Sexual Assaults
Without a national database tracking investigations of police misconduct, disgraced officers are often easily able to join different departments.
ByKylie Cheung
Published Yesterday 4:06PM
A campus police officer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth resigned in the midst of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him in 2010. That same officer, David Laudon, was then re-hired as a school resource officer at the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District in the nearby town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. In his capacity there, Laudon was tasked with investigating reported sexual assaults and working with students in the public school system who have been sexually victimized, WBUR reported over the weekend.
According to the campus police report at the time, Laudon had given a 20-year-old college student a ride back to her residential hall in his cruiser. The student said he gave her a hug and groped her breast, and then proceeded to constantly harass her with frequent unwanted texts and calls. Laudon resigned during the investigation into his behavior.
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Without a national database tracking investigations of police misconduct, disgraced officers are often easily able to join different departments.
ByKylie Cheung
Published Yesterday 4:06PM
A campus police officer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth resigned in the midst of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him in 2010. That same officer, David Laudon, was then re-hired as a school resource officer at the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District in the nearby town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. In his capacity there, Laudon was tasked with investigating reported sexual assaults and working with students in the public school system who have been sexually victimized, WBUR reported over the weekend.
According to the campus police report at the time, Laudon had given a 20-year-old college student a ride back to her residential hall in his cruiser. The student said he gave her a hug and groped her breast, and then proceeded to constantly harass her with frequent unwanted texts and calls. Laudon resigned during the investigation into his behavior.
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