Perry’s record as officer examined: Candidate had key role in strip search scandal

[Forkboy]

Republican congressional candidate Jeffrey D. Perry was involved, as a Wareham police sergeant in the early-1990s, in two instances in which an officer under his command conducted illegal strip searches of teenage girls, cases that are under new scrutiny as Perry’s political career advances.

In one case, Perry was the supervisor at the scene when the officer stuck his hand in a 14-year-old girl’s underwear, ostensibly searching for drugs. In the other, Perry accompanied the same officer to the house of a 16-year-old girl to tell her parents that she had voluntarily pulled down her pants to show she did not have any drugs.

Perry, now a state representative, was not charged in the cases, but the officer who searched the girls pleaded guilty to indecent assault and other charges and was sentenced to four years in prison. Perry was named as a defendant in civil cases brought by the girls’ parents, which were settled out of court.

Perry yesterday adamantly denied wrongdoing, saying he was at the scene in the case of the 14-year-old but did not witness the search. In the case of the 16-year-old, he said he was relaying what the officer had told him.

“I did not observe anything inappropriate,’’ he said.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/15/perrys_record_as_officer_examined/

[Angry Dragon]

1. Of course he did not observe anthing inappropriate

he is a republican......republicans see nothing wrong in what they do..