The city of Oakland was slapped with a $66 million suit on behalf of the woman at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal on Friday. Some city leaders, however, admitted they knew a claim was coming. Cheryl Hurd reports. (Published Friday, Sept. 16, 2016) 
 
 The city of Oakland was slapped with a $66 million suit on behalf of the woman at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal on Friday, hours after two former police officers were formally charged. 
 
 The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed criminal charges Friday in the ongoing sexual misconduct case involving Jasmine, formerly referred to as Celeste Guap, who the daughter of a police dispatcher. 
 
 The multi-million dollar lawsuit claims that both the city and its police department were negligent and exploitative in its handling of the case, according to court documents. 
 
 Criminal defense attorney Christian Picone said Friday's move was "step one before bringing a lawsuit." 
 
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 The city of Oakland was slapped with a $66 million suit on behalf of the woman at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal on Friday, hours after two former police officers were formally charged. Jodi Hernandez reports. (Published Friday, Sept. 16, 2016) 
 
 The lawsuit alleged that members of the Oakland Police Department, "either directly engaged in, stood by with a blind eye, or acted to cover up this modern-day slavery of (Jasmine)." 
 
 The lawsuit continued: "These acts constitute unlawful forced labor, trafficking into servitude and sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud and coercion and have caused (Jasmine) to suffer unimaginable abuse, paid, and suffering that she and her family will endure for the rest of her life." 
 
 Although the lawsuit is a blow to Oakland, some city leaders admitted that they knew a claim was coming. 
 
 "If it is what is presented today, we have to come up and pay for it," councilman Noel Galleo said. "[It] will have an impact on our budget to do public services on the streets." 
 
 Daniel Black, formerly of the Livermore police force has been charged with five counts, including engaging in prostitution, lewd public behavior and giving alcohol to a minor, according to court records. 
 
 Court documents reveal that Black picked up the young woman in a motorhome last April and took Jasmine out to dinner, telling her, "Just to be clear, I'm not paying you, but I will buy you dinner." Later, the pair engaged in oral copulation and sex. 
 
 Meanwhile, Leroy Johnson, a retired Oakland Police Department sergeant, faces a charge for failing to report child abuse after having knowledge that Jasmine was having sex with his colleagues, according to court documents. 
 
 Picone says if the case goes to trial, social media will play a big role in the case and so will Jasmine’s age. 
 
 “She’s a minor – she can’t consent,” he said. 
 
 Jasmine has accused dozen of law enforcement members from across the East Bay, including Richmond, of engaging in sexual relationships with her over the years, at times when she was a minor. 
 
 "All I can think about is there will be other women that are going to come forth with similar stories or actions claiming lawsuits," Noel said. 
 
 NBC Bay Area reached out to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, but a spokesperson for her office said only that she cannot comment on pending litigation. Richmond Mayor Tim Butt, meanwhile, said he is unaware of any claim having been filed against the city. ||||| OAKLAND — A teen who says she’s had sexual contact with some 30 East Bay law enforcement officers filed a $66 million claim against the city of Oakland on Friday as prosecutors filed criminal charges against two of the officers implicated. 
 
 The claim says that the teen was trapped in the sex trade as a minor and reached out to Oakland police for help. 
 
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 Attorneys for the teen, who previously went by the name Celeste Guap but has since disavowed the alias, could not be reached to talk about the $66 million claim. If the claim is denied by the city, it clears a path for a civil lawsuit. This newspaper is not using the teen’s real name because she is the victim of a sex crime. 
 
 Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who’s been outspoken in her condemnation of Oakland officers involved in the scandal, declined to comment. 
 
 Retired Oakland police Sgt. LeRoy Johnson and former Livermore Officer Daniel Black were the first to be criminally charged Friday in connection with the sex scandal involving the sexually exploited teenager and multiple law enforcement agencies. Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said that she plans on charging four more Oakland officers and one Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy. 
 
 The allegations came to light after Oakland police Officer Brendan O’Brien committed suicide last year and left a note naming officers who had sex with the teen. The woman turned 19 last month but began having sex with officers while she was underage. 
 
 It is the largest law enforcement sex scandal in the East Bay’s history, and the fallout caused Oakland to go through three police chiefs in nine days in June. Schaaf announced that there would be firings, suspensions and more training for officers involved. 
 
 The teen returned to the Bay Area this week after being released from a Florida jail, where she was held for two weeks after biting an employee at the Florida drug rehabilitation center she entered in late August. Richmond police have been criticized for helping send her to Florida, given that Richmond officers are implicated in the scandal, and the teen is a witness in the criminal investigation. 
 
 Johnson, a 50-year-old Texas resident, is charged with misdemeanor failure to report child abuse. During his career, one of Johnson’s assignments was supervising the police dispatch unit, in which the teenager’s mother has worked for years. 
 
 Johnson is described as a family friend of the teen and her mother in a probable cause declaration written by Jim Taranto of the Alameda County DA’s Office. He wrote the teen was vacationing in Puerto Rico with her mother in September 2015 when she sent private messages to Johnson through Facebook and disclosed that she had had sex with members of the Oakland Police Department. 
 
 “Tell me you were and (sic) adult,” Johnson allegedly wrote. 
 
 “I’d be lying,” the teen replied, according to the DA’s Office. 
 
 The teen asked Johnson not to report what she said, and he did not, despite being a mandated reporter legally bound to report child sex abuse, Taranto said. 
 
 Black, 49, was charged with five misdemeanor charges: two counts of “engaging or agreeing to engage in prostitution,” and one count each of engaging in lewd conduct and furnishing a minor with alcohol. He retired from the Livermore Police Department earlier this month. 
 
 The DA’s Office said in court documents that Black picked her up in his motor home and took her out to dinner in Albany and Berkeley on April 8 and April 16. Afterward, on both occasions, they engaged in sexual activity in the motor home. 
 
 “Just to be clear, I’m not paying you, but I will buy you dinner,” Black told the teen, according to Taranto. 
 
 Black and Johnson are scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Oct. 4. They have not been arrested in the case. 
 
 Johnson, O’Brien, former Oakland police Chief Sean Whent, and nine officers identified by their initials are named as respondents in the teen’s claim with the city of Oakland. In his suicide note, O’Brien claimed he never had sexual contact with the teen. O’Malley said it doesn’t appear they ever met in person. 
 
 The teen’s claim said that she met O’Brien in 2015 “while running from a pimp,” and instead of protecting her, O’Brien began sexually exploiting her. 
 
 “In addition to Officer O’Brien, Officer G.L. and other officers and deputies also sexually exploited (her) when she was a minor, and continuing into 2016, after she turned 18, providing her protection and information about police business for sexual favors,” the claim reads. “None of them ever offered her information or help in escaping from sexual exploitation.” 
 
 At a news conference last week, O’Malley said she found evidence of officers committing crimes in Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Joaquin counties. Authorities in those jurisdictions say they are conducting ongoing investigations into the matter. 
 
 Both the Oakland police and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment Friday.
– The latest salvo in the ongoing sex scandal involving multiple Bay Area police officers was a one-two punch on Friday, reports NBC News. Just hours after two cops became the first to be charged in the scandal, the 19-year-old woman who says that she had sexual contact with dozens of cops—including some while she was a minor—filed a $66 million claim against the city of Oakland. Per the claim, members of the Oakland Police Department "continued to exploit her by trading money, information, and/or protection for sex. Instead of helping (her) find a way out of exploitation, they furthered and deepened her spiral down into the sex trade." The lawsuit contends that "these acts constitute unlawful forced labor," and that cops involved "either directly engaged in, stood by with a blind eye, or acted to cover up this modern-day slavery." Cops LeRoy Johnson, who is retired, and Daniel Black were charged; the latter allegedly took the woman to dinner twice before engaging in sexual activity, telling her, "Just to be clear, I'm not paying you, but I will buy you dinner." Charges are reportedly coming for five other officers. The woman returned to California this week from Florida, where she underwent drug rehab, notes the East Bay Times; while there, she was jailed after biting a rehab center employee. The Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who has cycled rapidly through police chiefs in the mess, had no comment on pending litigation.