Attorney: CHP officer Sean Harrington victimized other women

Source: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)

MARTINEZ -- Disgraced former California Highway Patrol officer Sean Harrington victimized more women than he has been charged with, his attorney said Friday, minutes after Harrington pleaded not guilty in a nude photo scandal that has rocked the law enforcement agency. Harrington not only secretly forwarded racy cellphone photos on two female suspects' phones to himself, he also took pictures with his own phone of other arrestees' explicit phone photos, attorney Michael Rains said outside the courtroom in Martinez.

"He indicated there were a couple of instances where he took his own phone and took a photo of the pictures (on women's phones)," Rains said, providing the first corroboration in the CHP scandal that photos were captured by another method, and that there could be women who are unaware they were victimized.

"I don't know if we know who they are," Rains said of the other women. "He made a number of arrests."

The Contra Costa District Attorney's Office found that Harrington made 13 arrests of female suspects this year, Rains said.

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