Duke University Official Offers Son for Sex

MSNBC reports that a Duke University official has been arrested and charged for allegedly using the internet to offer his 5-year-old adopted son for sex to an out-of-state traveler. In addition to making an offer to an unknown traveler to sexually molest his 5-year-old son, there are allegations that the Duke University official committed acts of child sexual abuse on the boy himself.

Frank Lombard, Duke University's associate director for the Center for Health Policy, was arrested at his home on June 24 by FBI agents and officers from the Durham Police Department and charged with attempting to persuade a person over the Internet, who he did not know was a task force member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, to travel to North Carolina to sexually molest his 5-year-old adopted son.

During the online conversation, Lombard is alleged to have admitted to the undercover police detective that he had committed various acts of child sexual abuse upon the boy and wanted the stranger to travel to North Carolina to do the same to his 5-year-old son.

In addition, a confidential source told an FBI Task Force member that, on number of occasions, he or she had witnessed someone thought to be Lombard performing oral sex and other sex acts on a child believed to be under the age of 10.

Michael Schoenfeld, the vice president for public affairs at Duke University, said "Mr. Lombard has been employed at Duke since 1999 and has been in his current position since 2007. He was placed on administrative leave as soon as Duke learned of the investigation."

Schoenfeld added that "Duke is cooperating with the investigation" into the allegations involving child sexual abuse and offering a stranger to travel to North Carolina to sexually molest his 5-year-old son.

Written by Gabriel Dorman
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