NYPD Cop Made Sex Tapes With Teen Girl: DA

THE BRONX — An NYPD cop has been suspended after prosecutors accused him Tuesday of making several sex tapes with a teenage girl over a three-month period, authorities said. Officer Raul Olmeda faces 15 years behind bars if convicted of the most serious of the 67 charges against him, including five counts of rape, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said.

"The defendant preyed on the vulnerable young woman and videotaped his demeaning and demoralizing acts," Clark said in a statement. "It is especially disturbing that these crimes are alleged against a member of the NYPD."

Olmeda, a three and a half year NYPD veteran who worked in the Bronx's 42nd Precinct, is accused of paying the teen girl for sex and videotaping her several times between late January and early April, Bronx prosecutors said.

Authorities took several hard drives, a computer, a cellphone and "other electronic media" from his home, prosecutors said.

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"The fact that the defendant is an NYPD officer evidences an unconscionable violation of his oath to uphold the law and protect the public," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said in a statement.

In addition to third-degree rape, Olmeda is charged with sexually motivated felony, patronizing a minor for prostitution, using a child in a sexual performance, endangering the welfare of a child, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, promoting a sexual performance by a child, possessing a sexual performance by a child, third-degree criminal sexual act, third-degree patronizing a person for prostitution, fourth-degree tampering with a witness, official misconduct and unauthorized use of a computer.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett set Olmeda's bail at $250,000, prosecutors said. He is due back in court on Oct. 16. It's unclear from online court records whether Olmeda has a defense attorney yet.

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