{"id":89229,"date":"2019-08-20T18:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=89229"},"modified":"2019-08-21T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T22:32:46","slug":"conviction-of-ex-sheriffs-department-psychologist-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/08\/20\/conviction-of-ex-sheriffs-department-psychologist-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Conviction of ex-sheriff&#8217;s department psychologist upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65229\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/LASD-badge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/LASD-badge.jpg 303w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/LASD-badge-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld the conviction of a former Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department psychologist on sex-related charges involving two young family members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Dane Ward<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The charges involved crimes between October 2013 and November 2015 when the boy and girl were each under the age of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Ward &#8212; who was primarily responsible for teaching and training investigative personnel from the sheriff&#8217;s department &#8212; was sentenced in January 2018 to 98 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld the conviction of a former Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":65229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,1499],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}