By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
January 24, 2014
A San Francisco police officer is in at least potentially serious trouble for failure to ensure that his new boyfriend was not actually jail bait.
Richard Hastings III, 38, was arrested for possession of kiddie porn and lewd acts on a child on the basis of his relationship with a 15-year old boy. His lawyer has said that Hastings was told, and reasonably believed, the young man was actually of legal age.
If I remember correctly if the victim is under 14 there is no possible cleanup, but if the victim is older than that there is a possible way around it if you can clearly demonstrate that you reasonably believed your new “friend” was actually legal.
Hastings has been a cop in San Francisco for about 12 years. He is currently suspended without pay.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I thought gay relationships between an older man and a young boy were perfectly acceptable in San Fransicko. Bob says the trouble is he got busted in Contra Costa County where that kind of relationship is evidently still frowned upon.
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