Prison Term for Former MPD Officer Who Sexually Abused a 15-Year-Old Girl

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

WASHINGTON – Lucius Kearney, 52, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for sexually abusing a then 15-year-old girl from 2005 to 2006, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves.

            Kearney was found guilty by a Superior Court jury on September 27, 2024, to one count of first degree sexual abuse of a child. In addition to the prison term, Judge Maribeth Raffinan sentenced Kearney to 10 years of supervised release. Kearney will also be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

            According to the government’s evidence at trial, during the 2005-2006 school year, the victim, who was in the tenth grade, met the defendant, then a Fourth District Metropolitan Police Department officer, while doing a school project. The victim and defendant met at the Fourth District Police Station, and exchanged phone numbers and began communicating about the school project. Their conversations turned sexual, and ultimately the defendant engaged in sexual acts with the victim in his truck near a D.C. public library, where the victim was volunteering to complete her high school community service hours. The victim disclosed the abuse in 2020 after a random encounter with the defendant while he was on duty in the area where the victim lived.

            In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Graves commended the work of those who investigated the case from Metropolitan Police Department. He also commended the efforts of those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office including Paralegal Specialists Garcia Clarke and Veronica Yale; Victim Advocate Veronica Vaughan; Supervisory IT Specialist Leif Hickling; Intern Emily Moran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachel Bohlen, who did the initial investigation and indicted the case, and Assistant United States Attorneys Peter Taylor and Richard Kelley, who prosecuted the case.