Ohio State Trooper Ricky Vitte Jr. was just being a “good role model,” when he exposed a minor to pornography and masturbated with him. Or at least that’s how Vitte explained it to the investigating officer. Apparently, that’s also how the Sandusky County Sheriff’s Department and the Sandusky County Prosecutor see it, as well.
It was just a case of justifiable child sexual abuse.
According to the Sandusky Register, the investigating officer, Deputy Sean O’Connell wrote in his report “Rick’s reasoning is the fact that he did not want (the boy) to feel pressured on feeling the need to have to have sex with someone, when he can fix those needs by masturbating to porn.” In other words, exposing a minor to porn and engaging in sexual behavior with the minor is perfectly justifiable if you are a cop being investigated by another cop?
The prosecuting attorney, Tom Stierwalt was pressed by the Sandusky Register to explain why charges were not filed, even after Vitte confessed to exposing the child to pornography and masturbating with him. Stierwalt said that he decided not to press charges because Vitte might have presented a defense that justified his actions.
Note to sexual predators, this is how it’s done.
He might have presented a defense? Doesn’t every criminal do that? It seems the prosecutor views Vitte’s defense as ‘justifiable.’ So all you pedophiles and child predators out there, hopefully you’re watching this case, so you can learn how to ‘justify’ child sexual abuse. You might need a badge, though, before you try this one at home.
In another memo, dated January 10, 2014, Stierwalt said that he decided not to press charges because of the amount of time that had passed. He also mentioned a lack of physical evidence. Vitte admits that he masturbated with the boy and exposed him to porn five years ago. Under Ohio law, the statute of limitations for sexual abuse involving a minor is six years. And just how much physical evidence is required, when you already have an admission of guilt?
What about that time when Vitte attempted to evade the police, and there was a high speed chase?
When Deputy O’Connell first tried to question Vitte about the child sex abuse allegations, Vitte sped away in his police vehicle. A second deputy, who was in the police car with Vitte, was told to turn on the patrol car’s flashing red lights. After that, was the high speed chase. Vitte fled from the investigating officer, going at least 60 MPH.
In his report, Deputy O’Connell wrote that Vitte was “purposely fleeing the area to avoid confrontation and or an arrest.” No charges were brought against Vitte for fleeing from the cops. Or for speeding. Or for misuse of public property. Or anything else. How about the second cop that aided and abetted Vitte in his attempt to escape police questioning? Nope.
Beating a child until bruised a bleeding is a misdemeanor in Ohio?
Vitte was convicted on a reduced charge of child endangering, over a seperate incident, that took place five years before he masturbated with the boy. During that incident, Vitte beat his girlfriend’s five year old son until he was ‘bruised and bleeding’. The beating took place after the five year old boy wet his bed. When the child’s mother tried to stop him, Vitte head butted her. He pled no contest and was convicted on the misdemeanor child endangering offense.
Vitte’s still an officer in good standing.
During the investigation of the sex crime, Vitte’s five children described other incidents of violence. Some of those incidents involved being pushed, shoved and punched by their father. Other incidents included seeing him erupt in fits of rage, destroy property and abuse their mother.
Vitte is still a police officer ‘in good standing’ with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. He continues to carry a gun on the job, although he has had several restraining orders and child protection orders filed against him.
Surprise: ‘Police Officer’ is one of the top ten jobs that attract psychopaths.
Psychopathic personalities are attracted to positions where they will have a great deal of power over other people. This is not to imply that all police officers are psycopaths, but that a greater number of psychopaths choose to become cops and not teachers or counselors. As a side note, clergy can fall into that category, which helps explain why there is so much child sexual abuse in the church.
Vitte’s case is just one of many that illustrate this point. There a hundreds of recent examples that can be pointed to, which show cops engaging in horrific crimes, while never being held accountable. In California a group of police beat a homeless man to death, but were acquitted of all charges. How about the recent case of the retired cop, who shot a man for texting in a movie theater? Or this drunk cop, who pulled a man over and assaulted him in a parking lot? Or this one, who handcuffed and assaulted a teenage girl during a traffic stop? Or the Michigan cop who made black men sing, dance and walk like chimps, while video taping them for his friends and coworkers?
It seems pretty clear that we need a better system, which would allow citizens to police the police, instead of allowing the police to police themselves.