GUILTY NJ - Robert Melia & Heather Lewis for child sexual abuse, bestiality, Mooretown, 2008

Golfmom, it looks like your dog is even questioning your decision in posting of that picture. rofl
 
{rant}Now, let's pay them the better salaries commensurate with the risk of their jobs and the high standards we expect of them, and keep away from hiring the bottom of the barrel.{/rant}

The new officer salary in this area is somewhere in the area of 31-35,000 a year. FOR what amounts to a pittance, they're expected to load up, and wander off to work daily, full well knowing that their job may lead to their death over nearly anything. When it comes to the police, ask yourself "am I willing to be shot, shot at, beaten, verbally abused, and deal with people at their very worst everyday for 35k to start?" If that answer is any variation of an emphatic "no", then why should they. I'm all for giving them more money.

Also, it has to be a rational, logical correlation that if the pay was better, then you'd attract more intelligent people into the field and it wouldn't be so hard to fill the ranks. As it stands now, a person can get an Information Technology degree and start off in the mid 50k's. It's safer, and pays better.
 
September 2009:

If animals could talk, a few cows in Burlington County might ask state legislators to hurry up and outlaw bestiality.
During a bizarre hearing there yesterday, a Superior Court judge dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a Moorestown police officer accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves in rural Southampton in 2006, claiming a grand jury couldn't infer whether the cows had been "tormented" or "puzzled" by the situation or even irritated that they'd been duped out of a meal...


Children, Morley said, seemed "comforted" when given pacifiers, but there's no way to know what bovine minds thought of Robert Melia Jr. substituting his member for a cow's teat...

Burlington County Assistant County Prosecutor Kevin Morgan was certainly irritated by the ruling, claiming the grand jury didn't see the videos of the alleged incident, including one in which one hungry calf allegedly head-butts Melia in the stomach.


http://articles.philly.com/2009-09-24/news/24986953_1_animal-cruelty-cows-videos


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September 2009:

The judge's dismissal does not mark the end of Melia's legal woes.

He, along with girlfriend Heather Lewis, was arrested in April 2008 for sexually assaulting three girls over a five-year-period.

Authorities investigating those charges reportedly uncovered videos on his computer of a girl being "subjected to sexual activity" in addition to taped encounters between Melia and the calves.

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/natio...fficer-robert-melia-sex-cows-article-1.380819
 
April 2012:

A former southern New Jersey police officer and his ex-girlfriend have been convicted on several child sex assault charges.

Robert Melia Jr., who was suspended from the Moorestown police force after his April 2008 arrest, was found guilty Friday on 22 counts, including official misconduct...

Heather Lewis of Pemberton, Melia's ex-girlfriend, also was found guilty Friday, on 26 counts.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/former_moorestown_cop_ex-girlf.html


After more than two days of deliberations, the jury announced Friday afternoon that it couldn’t come to a unanimous verdict on 19 charges, all involving one of the accusers, and an additional charge against Melia.

But with nearly 50 counts to consider, the jury still handed down guilty verdicts on some of the most serious charges against the pair, who previously lived together on Cottage Avenue in Moorestown before separating...

The defense argued the video was made consensually, but the jury evidently believed the prosecution’s argument that the girl, almost completely nonresponsive with her mouth pursed shut, was drugged or incapacitated in some way. While Melia is not seen on-camera, the prosecution successfully argued that he was taping the scene.

http://patch.com/new-jersey/moorestown/robert-melia-moorestown-cop-guilty-of-sex-crimes


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October 2012:

A Moorestown police veteran received a 30-year prison sentence Thursday and his former girlfriend got 25 years in connection with sexual assaults on a total of four minors, ages 12 to 17, in the officer's township home....

The victims testified that Melia's police uniform hung on the back of the door in the bedroom where the abuse occurred, serving as a form intimidation, Assistant Burlington County Prosecutor Kevin Morgan said Thursday.
 

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