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Conviction of ex-sheriff’s department psychologist upheld

by City News Service • August 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES – A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld the conviction of a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department psychologist on sex-related charges involving two young family members.

Michael Dane Ward was convicted in August 2017 of four counts of a lewd act upon a child, three counts of oral copulation of a child 10 or younger, two counts of forcible lewd act upon a child and one count of sodomy with a child 10 or younger.

The charges involved crimes between October 2013 and November 2015 when the boy and girl were each under the age of 10.

Ward — who was primarily responsible for teaching and training investigative personnel from the sheriff’s department — was sentenced in January 2018 to 98 years to life in state prison.

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3 comments for "Conviction of ex-sheriff’s department psychologist upheld"

  1. Rebecca says

    August 29, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    He’s right where he needs to be, y he shouldn’t get out. Just like the LASD who worked special victims and raped that underage girl he only got 3 years in sorry but he needs to be doing the same as the psychologist because I’m pretty damn sure that sheriffs and their psychologists ARE held on a higher standard and should do a hella amount of time in prison when they act like animals that just so happen to have authority. What’s the F’N world coming to

  2. AdolfOliverMuff says

    August 21, 2019 at 6:43 pm

    There are multiple murderers, DWI drivers who killed entire families, and others who received a lesser sentence. This will be looked at again in 10 years and reduced.

  3. Commentator says

    August 20, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    Enjoy your new life behind bars.

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