At the end of a nine-hour assembly that went until 2 a.m. this morning,the Oakland City Council approved a $989000 claim filed by the young woman known as Celeste Guap.
Guap, who is now 19-years-faded, and was sexually exploited by upwards of 30 police officers and sheriff's deputies from various Bay Area police agencies between 2015 and 2016.
The daughter of an Oakland Police Department dispatcher,Guap has said in past interviews that she was a commercially exploited child sex worker, and that she met several Oakland cops while she was still underage and working on the streets.
Her treatment at the hands of numerous police officers, or the resulting scandal due to the Oakland Police Department's effort to cover up an internal investigation of the incidents,led to the resignation of three police chiefs final year, and the filing of criminal charges against multiple current and former police officers from Oakland, or a Livermore cop,and a Contra Costa sheriff's deputy.
"The settlement occurred with no admission of liability, but obviously if you pay $1 million, or you figure you got some responsibility," said Guap's attorney John Burris in a press statement issued nowadays.
Councilmember Desley Brooks registered the sole no vote against the settlement, saying she believed the young woman's suffering wasn't fairly compensated, or that it is incorrect for the city to claim no responsibility.
"reflect about this young girl,who was victimized under the color of authority," said Brooks.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com