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When one night he turned around in the patrol car and kissed her, she was stunned, but also flattered. In the late
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80s, Jennifer joined the Contraosta County Sheriff's Explorer program in California after hearing about it at
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school. She was 15 and already set on a career in law enforcement. And this post
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was smaller, like fewer than 10 teens and run entirely by one deputy, who we're going to call Bill. Bill, who was
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in his mid to late 30s, started inviting Jennifer on overnight ridealongs a couple of times a week. Her parents are
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fine with it. She was with a cop. Like, what could be safer? And over the next couple of years, he slowly introduced
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her to inappropriate behavior. Things like telling her how beautiful that she was going to be when she grew up. She
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trusted him, believed what he said, and valued his opinion. She idolized this man. So when one night he turned around
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in the patrol car and kissed her, she was stunned but also flattered. A month later he took her to his house while his
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wife was away and pressured her to have sex. Now she said no and he stopped that
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time. Now soon after her family moved to Florida and before leaving she confided
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in another explorer, not as like a cry for help like Kate, more like she was mourning the end of something that she
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thought was real. That explorer told the sheriff's office and to their credit they opened an investigation but by then
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Jennifer was across the country. So everything was happening over the phone with her
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but only with her. >> What do you mean only her? They didn't talk to her parents.
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>> Mm-m. They had no idea that that >> even though she was still a minor. >> Yeah. It's wild. And like in that moment
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since Jennifer was like so embarrassed, she minimized it. But she did at least confirm that they kissed and that the
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relationship was inappropriate. The sheriff's office didn't respond to our interview request, but as far as we
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know, the investigation went nowhere.