A Memphis police officer charged with molesting a child is out of jail on bond.
Steven Feinberg paid $40,000 to get out of jail Saturday.
He’s accused of sexually abusing a girl for the last five years.
According to the police report, the Department of Children’s Services got an anonymous tip that Feinberg was sexually abusing this girl.
During a forensic interview, she told police it was true.
“What makes everyone surprised is that it`s a police officer, somebody we trust,” said Dr. Jeffery Freiden, a licensed counselor who treats sex offenders in Shelby County.
Prosecutors have charged the Memphis police officer with molesting the girl since she was 12 years old.
Investigators say he started touching her when she was 12 and by the time she was 14, he started having sex with her.
Police say the victim is now 17 and opened up about this abuse, which she says happened in multiple houses Feinberg has lived in over the years.
The 33-year-old wasn’t at his Cordova home when WREG stopped by on Saturday.
Neighbors say they saw police at his house several times in the last few weeks.
“Kind of unsettling,” said neighbor, Kim Parsley.
Neighbors say he’s married with children.
“We teach our children to trust a police officer, trust people in charge,” said Dr. Freiden. “We have also got to teach our children that when they know something is wrong to come talk to you.”
Dr. Freiden says, if convicted, officer Fienberg could be spending years in prison because of how young the victim was when he allegedly started to abuse her.
“His first contact was at age 12,” said Dr. Freiden. “Usually ‘12’ is a number that State usually looks at as being way over the line.”
The Memphis Police Department has taken Feinberg off the job and Police Director Toney Armstrong says he’s going to ensure justice is served.
Feinberg has been a Memphis police officer since 2007.
If the accusations are true, this means that this sexual abuse started about two years after he joined the force.
He’s due in court Tuesday at 9 a.m.
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