A veteran Atlanta police investigator was charged Friday with molesting a 12-year-old girl.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Wilson Carstaffin on two counts each of child molestation and sexual battery and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes, according to a police press release.
Carstaffin, 42, of Douglasville met the Atlanta girl while working an extra job as an investigator at Long Middle School, said Judy Pal, a spokeswoman for the police department.
The 16-year veteran is married to a civilian employee of the police department.
Police said they believe the Nov. 30 incident happened in the officer's personal car away from the school.
The department launched an investigation in early December after receiving information about the alleged abuse, and its findings were turned over to the Fulton County District Attorney's office.
Carstaffin has been suspended with pay pending an emergency action hearing early next week.
"Children are told to trust police officers," Police Chief Richard Pennington said in the news release. "This is an apparent heinous abuse of that trust."
Reported by Atlanta Journal-Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/01/25/cop_arrest_0126.html
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