![]() ![]() Mayor Libby Schaaf, whom council members are criticizing for not informing them of the allegations, first reported by the East Bay Express, did not return phone calls on Saturday. “And if it’s true, it’s criminal, and they should be prosecuted.” “To think that officers were engaged in the sexual exploitation of a child: It’s heartbreaking,” City Council President Lynette Gibson McElhaney said. The scandal is a crippling blow to a department that has struggled for decades to win the trust of residents and has been under federal oversight for 13 years in part because of failures to adequately hold officers accountable for misdeeds. In perhaps the most surprising allegation - one that might help explain Whent’s sudden dismissal as chief - Guap said she also talked via Facebook last June to his wife, Julia Whent. “A lot knew I was underage because they nicknamed me ‘juve,’ which is short for juvenile,” she said. Guap, whose real name this paper won’t publish because she met the officers as an exploited minor caught up in sex work, said she didn’t lie about her age to them. The captain and several other officers named by Guap did not return calls for comment. She also said that two Oakland officers provided her confidential police information, including tips on scheduled anti-prostitution stings, and a retired OPD captain in his 80s paid $250 to have sex with her in a dingy San Pablo Avenue motel. In a telephone interview on Saturday, Celeste Guap, a Richmond resident, said she slept with three of the 24 officers - all from Oakland’s police department - before she turned 18 last August. ![]() And sources say that Oakland police’s botched handling of the investigation is what precipitated Chief Sean Whent’s sudden departure this week at the behest of the federal monitor overseeing the department. OAKLAND - The Oakland police sex scandal is ricocheting across the East Bay as the woman at the center of it now says she had sex with two dozen current and former officers from five departments - from Richmond to Livermore. ![]()
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