Milwaukee police officer who gave 14-year-old back to Jeffrey Dahmer retires | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75686694 Canada 07/28/2021 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Three women, Sandra Smith, Tina Spivey and Nicole Childress, discovered the victim, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone, after he had managed to escape from Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, naked, bruised, bleeding from his buttocks area and heavily under the influence of drugs.[2][3] Childress called 9-1-1;[4] Balcerzak, Joseph T. Gabrish and Richard Porubcan were dispatched.[5] Though the Laotian immigrant had been in the country for ten years and spoke English fluently,[6] in his drugged and brain-injured state, Konerak was unable to communicate his situation to authorities or to the three women.[7][4] Dahmer found the boy with the police and convinced them that the boy was his 19-year-old lover against the protests of the three women.[8] Smith recognized the boy from the neighborhood,[4] and the three women reiterated their concerns to the officers but were told to "shut the hell up" by the officers, who seemingly believed the incident to be a domestic dispute.[9] The three officers returned Konerak to Dahmer's apartment.[10] Balcerzak said he smelled nothing unusual, but Gabrish said he did detect an odor reminiscent of excrement,[11] which eminated from the decaying corpse of a previous victim in the bedroom,[12] but made no attempt to investigate. The officers listed the incident as a "domestic squabble between homosexuals."[13] Within an hour after they left, Dahmer murdered, performed oral sex upon the corpse, and dismembered the boy.[14][15] Balcerzak's and Gabrish's positions and roles within the Milwaukee Police Department were terminated, and Porubcan was put on job probation for 1 year,[16][17] after their actions were widely publicized,[3] including an audiotape of the officers making homophobic statements to their dispatcher and cracking jokes about having reunited the "lovers".[2][4] The officers did not check Dahmer's identification; had they done so, they would have discovered that Dahmer was a sex offender previously convicted for molesting Sinthasomphone's older brother, who was 13 at the time, in 1988.[4] The city of Milwaukee later paid the boy's family a sum of $850,000 to settle a lawsuit over the police's handling of the situation.[18] |
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