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Title: Oakland Cops Uncover Dead Colleague's Fling With Underage Sex Worker, Make Sure to Get Her Number for Themselves
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Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/blog/2016/06/29/ ... ex-trafficking-when-cops-do-it
Published: Jun 29, 2016
Author: Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Post Date: 2016-07-01 09:53:13 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 8247
Comments: 49
The young woman at the center of a scandal shaking multiple California police departments has revealed new and damning facts about the situation. Celeste Guap, 18, claims to have had sex with more than 30 Bay Area police officers in exchange for cash, tips about upcoming prostitution stings, and protection from prosecution. Things allegedly started when she was still a minor and met Oakland officer Brendan O'Brien in the course of fleeing an abusive pimp. According to Guap, she and O'Brien began having sex in February 2015. "We [would] tell each other you're my only, you know, like that, but he knew what it was," she told ABC 7 in a recent interview. O'Brien's wife had died the previous year in what had been ruled a suicide but some suspected O'Brien of being involved in. Guap told the TV station that in September 2015, she celebrated her 18th birthday by traveling to Puerto Rico, where she found herself alone in a "rough area" and called O'Brien for help. He didn't pick up. She threatened to expose him for sleeping with her when she was still 17 and, when he still didn't respond, she did it, sending a text to a commanding officer at OPD detailing her relationship with O'Brien and several other OPD officers. She then sent a screenshot of the text to O'Brien. A few hours later, O'Brien committed suicide. "Guap appears to have some guilt about this, and perhaps some anger toward the dozens of other officers who contacted her for sex over the ensuing months," SFist reports. I don't know about you, but if my colleague had killed himself after being threatened with exposure by a teen sex worker, my impulse would be, at least, to avoid her. OPD officers, however, thought otherwise. Not only did those alerted to O'Brien and Guap's relationship not report it, they began allegedly contacting Guap—the daughter of an OPD dispatcher—for sex themselves. Guap said she eventually began sleeping with cops from neighboring areas, too, including Alameda County and San Francisco. She turned over an array of cell phone records to various departments to corroborate her claims. Since these allegations came out, two OPD officers resigned and three more were placed on administrative leave pending investigation. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office investigated four offiers, but determined that because Guap was 18 at the time they slept with her and they did not pay her in cash, no wrongdoing was involved. In total, Guap claims to have slept with 32 members of local law enforcement, although she claims only three paid her. The rest she slept with for information and protection from arrest, said Guap, who mostly did street-based sex work. I don't mean to deny Guap's agency, but when your choices are have sex with someone or get thrown in jail... It might not be rape as we commonly think of it, but it's sure as hell—if nothing else—an abuse of authority. It's coercion. And it's a direct result of the criminalization of prostitution, a system that seems to benefit no one but corrupt cops and violent sex traffickers. While all of this was happening with Guap, the Oakland and Alameda County police departments were very public crusaders against prostitution. In the first six months of 2014, Oakland police made 295 arrests related to prostitution and conducted 30 prostitution stings. "We don't have a lot of resources," said OPD Luitenenant Kevin Wiley at the time. "But the ones we have, we dedicate 110 percent." The city even ran billboards featuring the mugshots of men who were arrested for attempting to pay for sex. Another series of recent Oakland city billboards featured slogans such as: "Buying a teen for sex is child abuse. Turning a blind eye is neglect." "Buying a teen for sex is child abuse," warned Oakland city billboards as its police force passed around a teenager for sex.
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#44. To: Deckard, misterwhite, Pinguinite, Gatlin, nativist nationalist (#0)
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Four things therein stand out to me which lead to some interesting questions/speculation... First, before going to Puerto Rico, she was an underage whore in Oakland, California, a known hotbed of sex trafficking of underage girls; and, by the time she took her celebratory trip there, she had been whoring for at least a few years. How much rougher can any place in Puerto Rico be than what she was used to in Oakland; and, if such a place does exist there, didn't she have the street smarts to either be prepared to protect herself or to simply not go there alone? Second, she was in Puerto Rico. O'Brien was presumably approximately 3,000 miles away in Oakland, California. Exactly what did she expect him to do even IF she had managed to reach him by phone? Third, the way the article is written indicates that O'Brien and "several other OPD officers" were the only cops she was having sex with (actually, there were only four, including O'Brien) until after her trip to Puerto Rico. So, how did she have the phone number of that OPD commanding officer so conveniently handy while in Puerto Rico; unless, he was also one of her LEO regulars while still underage? Fourth, according to the way the article is written, ALL of those "several other OPD officers" were sexually active with the same underage whore who apparently chose to call only O'Brien for help and subsequently threatened only him for not responding. However, exposing him, would likely lead to all of them being exposed (at least some of them were in fact exposed); and, when she sent the text to the commanding officer who was also likely to have been involved with her (again, how else did she so conveniently have his phone number?), he would know he was probably going to be exposed, too; UNLESS, O'Brien was termina..., I mean, committed suicide... OR... The age of consent in California just happens to be 18. In the above article, Guap hinted that O'Brien may have gotten a little too possessive of her; and, more evidence of that can be found here: http://abc7news.com/news/i-team-...scandal-revealed/1404428/ Did he decide that since she had become "legal," he wanted her all for himself and felt safe enough to ask her to marry him? Bring overly possessive of her, he would probably also be insanely jealous of her other LEO regulars; and, if she refused his proposal, he may have been the one who threatened to blow the whistle on the whole sorry affair; including, her and all of her other LEO regulars. Was that the real reason she took off to Puerto Rico and called O'Brien's commanding officer from there; and, did that OPD commanding officer "fix the problem himself?" Is that the reason he apparently still remains unnamed and uncharged? If Guap just wanted to celebrate her 18th birthday, there are a lot of places a lot closer to Oakland, CA than Puerto Rico; but, if you're running away from something, anywhere 3,000 miles away is an excellent place to be... I think there is probably more to this story than we're being told by the girl or this author...
Thank you for the comprehensive and detailed presentation of pertinent information in these two posts along with your commentary on the objectivity, or seemingly lack thereof, of the author. You and chan are two individuals I can place great confidence in to objectively furnish factual and detailed information. You both set high standards I will proudly use for a performance pattern and goal setting.
You're both very welcome. Your kind words are also very much appreciated; as, such posts often represent hours of research and time devoted to organizing my findings and thoughts, typing it up, and editing to correct my awful typing.
Again, I greatly appreciate your efforts.
#49. To: Gatlin (#48)
Thanks!
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestExcerpt from the article: "Guap told the TV station that in September 2015, she celebrated her 18th birthday by traveling to Puerto Rico, where she found herself alone in a "rough area" and called O'Brien for help. He didn't pick up. She threatened to expose him for sleeping with her when she was still 17 and, when he still didn't respond, she did it, sending a text to a commanding officer at OPD detailing her relationship with O'Brien and several other OPD officers. She then sent a screenshot of the text to O'Brien."
#45. To: packrat1145, nolu chan (#44)
#47. To: Gatlin, nativist nationalist (#45)
#48. To: packrat1145 (#47)
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