Oakland’s police chief Sean Whent “resigned” from office last Thursday, according to initial media reports and Oakland’s mayor Libby Schaaf, for “personal reasons.” And then, before folks could turn around good, local paper the East Bay Express printed an expose saying Whent was kicked out over a cop sex scandal that has folks covering their mouths in shock.
The Express has learned that the sexual-misconduct scandal involves more than just a few rank-and-file Oakland cops, but also high-ranking officials from departments throughout the Bay Area. A few committed statutory rape of the victim, who was an under-age sex worker at the time, and informed her of undercover police operations.
According to interviews with the victim, elected officials, and sources close to OPD, in addition to documents obtained by the Express, at least fourteen Oakland Police officers, three Richmond Police officers, and four Alameda County Sheriff's deputies had sex with the girl who goes by the name Celeste Guap. (The Express is not publishing Guap's real name because she was a sexually exploited minor when the abuse began.)
Three Oakland police officers committed statutory rape of Guap when she was under-age. She says all of the law-enforcement agents who had sex with Guap knew she worked as a sex worker.
Basically, Whent was fired by the police department’s Independent Monitor because he knew about the misconduct and appears to have done absolutely nothing about it.
Wooooooo wee.
Check the East Bay Express which has all of the details, including screenshots of text messages between some officers and the sex worker, here.