El Monte police Sgt. accused in sexual harassment lawsuit has prostitution conviction
Cops are so full of shit!
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EL MONTE — An El Monte police sergeant pleaded no contest to a charge of soliciting a prostitute more than a decade before he was named as defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the city.
Al Tromp was charged in 1997 with the misdemeanor. After his no contest plea, a judge sentenced him to five days in jail and one year of probation, Los Angeles County District spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
Despite his conviction, he was allowed to keep his job with the police department.
Tromp, 52, is the central figure in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against El Monte last week.
El Monte Police Officer Mechelle Marin alleges Tromp spoke into her breasts and made sexually derogatory statements while he supervised her.
Marin contends that she complained both verbally and in writing to supervisors, who failed to take corrective action.
Marin's lawyer said on Monday that the revelation of Tromp's prostitution conviction proves the department knowingly tolerated the sergeant's inappropriate behavior.
“This appears to be further evidence that Sgt. Tromp had a long-standing propensity to treat women as sexual objects,” attorney Solomon E. Gresen said in a written statement. “One would think that the El Monte Police Department would have long ago recognized the need to rein in Sgt. Tromp's unlawful behavior.”
El Monte Chief of Police Tom Armstrong denied that
Just legalize it and be done with it.
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How long will it take before these holy than thou @#$%s realize that we are all just the same. Senators, police, and city managers fall hard into their own trap. Stupid asses still won't legalize prostitution. The truth is that they will get caught faster than us because they aren't the wiser.