A Seminole Police officer charged with trying to have sex with his 17-year-old daughter has been fired, a tribal spokesman said today.
The 46-year-old man, who the SunSentinel is not identifying to protect the girl's privacy, had been a member of the Seminole Police Department since December 2006.
"He has been terminated as a result of the arrest," Seminole Tribe spokesman Gary Bitner said.
According to a Sunrise arrest report, the man's mother walked in on him in the kitchen of their Sunrise home Thursday afternoon and saw him grabbing parts of the girl's body.
Both the suspect and the daughter were fully clothed.
The man's mother "started to make a lot of noise and [the suspect] continued touching [his daughter] as if there was no one else in the room," the report said.
The suspect's mother phoned her other son, a Pembroke Pines police officer. He called Sunrise police.
When police interviewed the girl, she told them her father had been giving her Ambien sleeping pills over the past several years and that "after she falls asleep, she doesn't know what happens," the report said.
The girl was examined by a nurse and sent to live with her uncle.
The man was charged with five counts of using or allowing a child to engage in sex, two counts of sexual battery of a victim between 12 and 18 by a custodian, two counts of sex offense against a child over 12 and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition.
He is being held on $25,000 bail for each of the charges except the last one, for which he's being held on $3,500. The total bail comes to $228,500.
According to public records, the suspect was a police officer in Miami Springs from January to August 2004, then in Golden Beach from July 2005 to December 2006.
He has no prior arrests in Florida, according to state records.
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