The victim will remain anonymous. It is the policy of the Maryland State Police to withhold the identity of victims of sex crimes.
The investigation began last week after the Maryland State Police received a request from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office to conduct the investigation. At the time of the alleged incident, West was employed as a Sheriff’s Deputy at the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators learned the juvenile victim had allegedly become acquainted with West about thirteen years ago. Further information revealed the relationship consisted of several sexually oriented incidents in various locations throughout Maryland. Police also learned the victim was a fifteen year old student attending a high school in Salisbury at the time of the incident.
Although there is no indication at this time of other victims, police urge anyone who may have information relevant to this case to please contact state police investigators at 443-783-0444. The investigation continues…
77 comments:
Police, Teacher, Preachers WTH is going on with people in authority.
I bet we will not see this on the local news tonight.
Joe was this he child or just a minor he knew.
I hope they use the new sex offender laws on him. Thanks Joe
A cop in jail is not a good thing.
What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty, oh i forgot in America its the other way around, 13 yrs and this Woman who is now 28 , i DON'T buy it, something aint KOSHER.
What is going on with this world ! People in positions that our young sons and daughters are suppose to trust and look up to abusing them!hes disgraces law enforcement and the good troopers and officers that do their job everyday !Aa a father of 3daughters i hope that he gets no mercy ! scumbag
1:54 once again another person jumping to conclusions, what ever happened to due process i guess your just another one of these types of people that only believes one side of a two sided coin.
this story has so many holes it's hard to make an accurate judgement. I hope that the victim gets some type of peace out of telling the authorities.
Many times victims of these sort of cases don't come forward for years out of fear. I agree let it be tried in court. This was NOT his child but he does have children that do NOT need to be subjected to this crap.
Sounds like a witch hunt to me!
i guess the donuts just weren't enough anymore.
They met while Kenny was assigned to Parkside High as the deputy. A dialog began to take place. This particular student was extremely mature and experienced for her age and the relationship, which “might” have become physical when she reached 17, grew stronger and more noticeable with the school staff. Word got to the Sheriff’s Administration of a possible relationship. Phone messages were exchanged between Kenny and the girl and all who read them believed something had taken place between the two, or was about too. Kenny was transferred out of the schools and in to something else. From top to the bottom of the Sheriff’s Administration knew about this incident and kept it was quiet, as much as possible, within the ranks.
They called me an alcoholic, and even a drunk. I only drank off duty and with friends (now, not at all) and all the time and energy I put in to the School Resource Officer program no one can accuse me of being a Perv. or a Chester. I was forced to leave after a mistake, but keep the liars, thieves, pervs, and ROD’s (retired on duty). Good luck to you all because a couple of counties over, we have our ducks in a row.
212 I do believe in due process and innocent until proven guilty! But i am a person that believes if the state police arrested him and hes in jail on 100000bond !that theres reason for it ! A very good Reason ! I also feel very bad for his family its so sad and if he is innocent my mistake!but i ll give 4 to 5odds his guilty as sin!!!!
Anonymous said...
Sounds like a witch hunt to me!
December 12, 2012 2:39 PM
BS. You just don't get arrest for something like this with some measure of evidence.
When you abuse your power, the truth eventually makes its way out for all to see just what a pervert you are.
He was just a very friendly guy, like the guy that ran Cellcom Mobil on the plaza a few years ago, he was very friendly to the young girls! They both liked to have the girls sit on their laps, listen to them talk about their problems, tickle them and give them a friendly hug. ALL examples of abnormal behavior in an adult, parents watch out for this, please!!!
To be honest i am related to the accuser and all the signs were there 13and years ago while we were attending high school. Consensual or not kenny should have been the one to not let it happen. How many 15 year olds would have thought this was the kool thing to do to be with any older person who held a high rank. ALOT!!!! Maybe now 13u years later this person has gotten help with their issues and has come clean. But i forgot you all have it all figured out
251....thank you Mr. Chance. We miss you as a sheriff's deputy.
Sounds like this Jury has already found him GUILTY!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
He was just a very friendly guy, like the guy that ran Cellcom Mobil on the plaza a few years ago, he was very friendly to the young girls! They both liked to have the girls sit on their laps, listen to them talk about their problems, tickle them and give them a friendly hug. ALL examples of abnormal behavior in an adult, parents watch out for this, please!!!
December 12, 2012 3:26 PM
Are you talking about Gary?
3:18
Please try to tell that story to the boys from Duke University!
Anonymous said...
To be honest i am related to the accuser and all the signs were there 13and years ago while we were attending high school. Consensual or not kenny should have been the one to not let it happen. How many 15 year olds would have thought this was the kool thing to do to be with any older person who held a high rank. ALOT!!!! Maybe now 13u years later this person has gotten help with their issues and has come clean. But i forgot you all have it all figured out
December 12, 2012 3:48 PM
To be honest just because you are related to the accuser and just because "the signs were there" 13 years ago isn't enough evidence to prove anything in a court of law.
By the way your grammar proves you are a product of the Wicomico County School system.
Clearly Anon 2:51 is former sgt Jason chance who was terminated from the sheriff department after a night of heavy drinking and a DUI hit and run. Don't cast stones Jason.
I don't know who 2:51 is but I have also heard the same story from someone who knows Kenny personally. As mother of a teenage daughter, this is frightening. It's hard to trust anyone.
So they transferred him out of the school for an inappropriate relationship with a student and into the Child Advocacy Center?
An administrator, like a teacher, is required to report child abuse to social services. Forfeiture of MD license/professional certificate can be the penalty for educators who suspect child abuse or child neglect and fail to report it. I'm sure whoever was in charge of Parkside would have known that.
I know his wife or rather soon to be exwife....wow, wonder what she has to say about all of these allegations? I know personally I'm thinking wow Mindy, Karma's a real bitch!
A special interest group has hired a PI to identify the victim.Once identified,her identity will be released by that group irregardless of the consequences.
2:51...ur an idiot! you may have been off duty but you still got behind the wheel while and after drinking. thanks for goin to another county too moron!
"Karma's a real bitch"
Please tell more
When things like this happen you can bet it happens with others also meaning they repeat the same pattern. People who do this have no boundries, no conscience and do it more than once.
Grudis was in charge of Parkside then. He's been known to cover up plenty!
"irregardless" HA-HA-HA-HA-!!!!
There is also a Wicomico County school bus driver that has just been removed from his position due to his involvement with the same victim.
In a school if the child denys nothing happened between the two there is nothing to report. There still is a teacher at Parkside that had s relationship with student and nothing happened because the girl denied everything.
The victim apparently has an attraction to police officers since she married one and is being divorced by him because she is having an affair with another police officer.
fishy. 13 years later...what a bunch of bs!
Anonymous said...
A special interest group has hired a PI to identify the victim.Once identified,her identity will be released by that group irregardless of the consequences.
December 12, 2012 7:04 PM
If she was 17 I am sure she was a willing participant. It's a know fact that most high school students have already had sex and more than likely since middle school. Instead of the BOE teaching abstinence they are teaching safe sex.
The "victim" isn't really a victim. She's what they call a holster hound. She is married to a cop now and was caught having an affair with another cop while married to a cop. That cop is divorcing her.
The student may deny it, but questions about the relationship are to come from social services investigators, not from principals or teachers. It is made very clear during in service presentations on the topic that the role of the educator is not to investigate, it is to report suspicion of child abuse or neglect. Social services then conducts the interviews necessary to investigate the report.
it's hard to make an accurate judgement.
December 12, 2012 2:19 PM
Then don't.
all the time and energy I put in to the School Resource Officer program no one can accuse me of being a Perv. or a Chester. I was forced to leave after a mistake, 2:51 PM
Would this mistake be having sex with a 17 year old while you were 30 something?
Everyone wants to condemn you, including me. But I won't.
I will have to trust the courts will do the right thing, whatever that is.
9:51....that is exactly correct. However, this was never reported to social services to investigate. The school and the sheriff's office covered it by simply transferring him out of the school.
To be honest i am related to the accuser and all the signs were there 13and years ago while we were attending high school. 3:48 PM
If the 'signs' were there then, why wasn't something done about it 'then'?
And if you're related to him, why are you even spouting off about it? Don't you have any loyalty to your family?
That does not mean to condone his actions but why add fuel to the fire?
Instead of the BOE teaching abstinence they are teaching safe sex.
December 12, 2012 9:09 PM
Isn't that a good thing? Abstinence would be better but how many of your classmates exercised abstinence?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The victim apparently has an attraction to police officers since she married one and is being divorced by him because she is having an affair with another police officer.
December 12, 2012 8:58 PM
Hahahaha!! Name names!
Anonymous said...
The "victim" isn't really a victim. She's what they call a holster hound. She is married to a cop now and was caught having an affair with another cop while married to a cop. That cop is divorcing her.
December 12, 2012 9:50 PM
I call them Holster Sniffers!
Hahahaha!! Name names!
December 12, 2012 10:36 PM
Right after you grow up.
I'll not wait for either to happen.
I call them Holster Sniffers!
December 12, 2012 10:38 PM
nanny nanny boo boo good for you hoo
who cares what you call them? keep this crap in the locker room, boys
8:30 -- my favorite non-word, too!
I'm just an outsider and don't know these people. Maybe something did happen between them yrs ago and she wants to rekindle and he does not. She maybe thinking revenge is sweet being ignorant that karma is a bitch!
10:18 They are related to the girl!
8:30 -- my favorite non-word, too!
December 12, 2012 11:18 PM
Is this the Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood of proper spelling and usage of grammar?
Or Sesame Street System of finger pointing and name calling?
REGARDLESS, the crap gets old. Unlike some's maturity level.
it's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
she's a bitch
Wow is all I can say. As a come here, I am always shocked how you rednecks talk about each other. I doubt that anyone who has posted knows the real story, so how about we let the courts decide?
5:29am. As a native who has been living off the shore for the past 25 years in a metropolitan area, I think what you are seeing is not "Redneck" but rather small town living. I have found that in the "city"', folks are just as judgemental but hide it better. Four years ago, we bought a small place in a small town on the shore where we spend our weekends and hope to retire. I now realize just how much I missed the shore. Not just for the gossip but because the up side of small town living where everyone knows your business is that you also develop true friendships where neighbors actually care about your well being and are always ready to help. Yes. Small towns breed gossip but also a huge sense of community. I do not think that .this is "Redneck". You take the good woth the bad and shore life is much more full of the good.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hahahaha!! Name names!
December 12, 2012 10:36 PM
Right after you grow up.
I'll not wait for either to happen.
December 12, 2012 11:16 PM
Aw.. someone got their feelings hurt.
There's always a few "bumps" in the road of life. thank goodness.
Aw.. someone got their feelings hurt.
December 13, 2012 9:41 AM
Would you like to explain how?
Dang Joe, I think I liked it better when you didn't allow as many stupid comments through.
They would not have taken him in if they didn't have some kind of proof. I'm sure he did it.
I knew a girl in college that he pulled over. He offered to give her a ride a show her around the "rough parts of town" to show off. He said that if she would "spend time" with him, he wouldn't give her a ticket. She took the ticket! Seems like he's always been inappropriate. About time he got caught!
I think I love 5:29!!!!!!lmao!
12:58 you are full of BS
still is!!!!!~
not a word, think you mean regardless
Just another poooooooooooooooor me situation and all about the mighty dollar,oh i was in therapy x13 yrs REALLY, screwing cops all you life ,marring a cop, in the middle of a divorce bc you got caught screwing another cop , and now looking for the mighty $$$, close you legs WH/RE.
1:49---yeah..ok...He's such a law abiding cop--that's why he has a 100,000 bond. You are in denial if you think cops don't really do that! He obviously has a pattern of using his job to seek out younger women..and in this case a GIRL. He's soooo innocent...that's why he has 100,000 bond--they don't just give that kind of bond for fun. Get a grip!
It is sickening to see the LEO's come to this pervert's defense. Throw ALL of the department in jail who covered for him too. Same with the BOE who may have covered up something. Adults know better than this.
I know the accuser.. She claims to be such a victim but I remember how she would almost boast about it many many times and if you we're a shorebirds player who stayed at her mother and step dads house I would be very nervous because when she's done playing the victim here you will probably be next. I'm in no way saying what happened was right at all. But the fact is she is a scumbag who cheated on her husband several times and every time time she got caught cheating it was because of alcohol or this or that. She is a professional victim who is looking for attention wherever and whenever she can get it. The real shame of it is her kids (who she has nothing to do with by the way) and soon to be ex-husband will be associated with this mess
I was watching Law and Order and began reading these comments during a commercial. I turned off the show. Reading what you geniuses have to say about the Maryland Judicial System, your analysis of the Grand Jury indictment and local law enforcement investigatory and evidentiary processes is not only enlightening, but much more entertaining. Please, proceed.
If he wasn't guilty why would he resign?
Wow. Then the victim must really get around and has an issue with saying older men. Stay in a child place
I do not know the victim and I am sickened by some of these comments. As usual the female victim comes under personal attack and the name calling begins. Professional victim or not the point of this is that an adult is accused of having sex with a child.
You all are missing the point here... regardless of who the victim has become as an adult, this happened when she was 15. It doesn't matter if she consented. He was a police officer at her school and he took advantage of his position. Under the law, this is Child Abuse and there is no statute of limitations with Child Abuse.
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