Officer busted.

• Author: Soave, Robby
• Position: Cop exploiter - Suicide of police detective David Edward Abbott - Brief article

A D.C.-AREA police detective whose job was to investigate Internet sex crimes against children committed suicide in December moments before cops could arrest him--on charges of sexually exploiting kids.

That was just one of the lurid ironies of the law enforcement career of David Edward Abbott, who worked for the region's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Abbott had been the lead investigator in a 2014 sexting case in which a 17-year-old was accused of sending pictures of his naked body to his 15-year-old girlfriend. In order to prove the photos were authentic, authorities sought and obtained a warrant to drive the teen to a hospital, give him a drug that would induce an erection, and photograph his genitals.

The invasive procedure never took place--the teen's lawyer complained that the request was "just crazy."...