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Female officers were recruited for undercover bachelor parties. Instead, they were sexually assaulted, they say.
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
May 25, 2021
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When an officer overseeing the human trafficking unit at a Texas police department interviewed female deputies about participating in undercover operations, he asked them the same question: Do you have what it takes?
What it took, the women now claim, was attending fake bachelor parties where they were asked to act as prostitutes, wear revealing clothes and drink excessive alcohol in the company of drunk male supervisors.
New lawsuit to outline disturbing allegations against members of the Harris County Constable Office Pct. 1
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct involving high-ranking members of the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Office is expected to file Monday morning.
The lawsuit will be filed on behalf of three former and current female deputies and a Human Trafficking advocate, who claimed the department knew about sexual misconduct but did nothing to stop it. The lawsuit names Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen, Assistant Chief Chris Gore and Lieutenant Shane Rigdon.
The female deputies claim they were recruited to the department’s Human Trafficking Unit and molested by their intoxicated male commanding officers during undercover operations that they called bachelor party-style prostitution stings.
Undercover Texas Deputies to Accuse Superiors of Sexual Assault in Prostitution Stings
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Three female Texas deputy constables are set to file a lawsuit Monday claiming they were sexually assaulted, exploited, and harassed by their superiors.
The women, all from the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Office, were working on a task force to fight human trafficking at the time of the alleged assault.
The deputy constables say they were picked for undercover operations where their superiors used so-called bachelor-party prostitution stings to try to collar pimps running call girls, according to a news release from their attorneys cited by the