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District resident Lucius Kearney, now 52, was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse of a child following an incident nearly 20 years ago, according to officials.
At the time of the assaults, the victim was 15 years old and the former officer was around 33 years old.
Prosecutors said that in the 2005-2006 school year, when the girl was in 10th grade, she met the Kearney – then a Fourth District Metropolitan Police Department officer – while doing a school project.
At their initial meeting at the Fourth District Police Station, Kearney and the teen exchanged phone numbers and began communicating about the school project.
Their conversations turned sexual, court documents state, and ultimately Kearney engaged in sexual acts with the victim in his truck near a DC public library, where the victim was volunteering to complete her high school community service hours.
The sexual abuse came to light in 2020 after the victim encountered Kearney while he was on the duty in the area where she lived.
Kearney's body worn camera showed that after this coincidental encounter, which happened in 2019, Kearney ran the tags from the victim’s car and said to himself: “How in the world did I f--king manage to do that?!?," according to officials.
Kearney, who was charged in 2021, is scheduled to be sentenced in December.
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