Police held a secret ceremony this weekend, in which no press was allowed, to honor several cops involved in a massive child sex trafficking scandal.
When the young girl thought she was getting help, she was actually being brought into a depraved circle of cops from multiple departments who would continue to abuse her for years to come.
Instead of helping her, more than 30 other law enforcement officers "continued to traffic, rape, victimize and exploit a teenage girl who needed to be rescued," according to a legal claim filed with the Oakland city attorney's office. "Instead of helping [the teen] find a way out of exploitation, they furthered and deepened her spiral down into the sex trade," the claim continued.
Now, as a recent report from the East Bay Express notes, some of the officers involved in covering up this explicit case of child sex trafficking are not only being promoted — but honored.
Knowing that if they conducted their honors ceremony in public, they would likely see a huge backlash, the Oakland police department held a secret ceremony in a church Friday.
Comment: Apparently nothing significant has changed In Oakland despite the departmental purges. See the following articles for more background on the scandal: