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Police to compensate officer after mistaking her husband for an abused child (www.theage.com.au)
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A policewoman who was arrested over false suspicions of child sex abuse will receive compensation after detectives mistook her 32-year-old former husband for a 10-year-old boy in an intimate photo of the couple.

The County Court of Victoria has ordered Victoria Police to pay $85,000 for arresting and detaining the officer, whose ex-husband was under investigation for child sex abuse allegations.

Professional standards command detectives held the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, for almost five hours on February 4, 2019 after a separate investigation into her then husband, who was eventually convicted of child sex abuse.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait so they arrested her thinking her husband was a kid, but then it turned out the husband was a pedo?

[โ€“] TotallynotJessica 3 points 11 months ago

She was aiding an investigation into her pedo husband, providing private photos from her phone. She was trying to lock him up, but the guy was such a twink that he looked 10 years old in a bad mirror selfie with her in it. Despite his visible wedding ring and identifying injuries, the cops arrested her immediately. They thought hairless=child. The photo must have been very low quality for a 32 year old to look 10.