Friday, May 31, 2002
Two officers admit to sex with woman
Incident occurred on duty
By Jane Prendergast, jprendergast@enquirer.com
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Two Cincinnati police officers are on desk duty while they wait to learn if they'll be punished for admitting they had sex on duty with a woman they picked up at a bar.
 Johnson
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 Kidd
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Officers Robert Johnson and Robert Kidd Jr. are accused of meeting the 40-year-old woman at lingerie night at Madonna's downtown. They left the bar, took her to her home and had sex with her, according to a memo distributed at City Hall on Thursday by City Manager Valerie Lemmie.
Officials did not say when the incident took place, but the woman complained to the department's Internal Investigations Section on Dec. 11.
Initially, the investigation centered around whether the sex was consensual. Officials say it was. The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office determined no crime took place.
Chief Tom Streicher said the community can expect a full investigation.
Officer Johnson, 35, a former firefighter in Marion, Ind., has been a Cincinnati police officer since May 1997. His performance evaluations describe him as respectful to citizens, capable and a possible shift leader with a little more motivation.
Officer Kidd, 31, who has been on the force since 1998, has a wife and young baby. He graduated from Greenhills High School and Thomas More College, where he studied criminal justice and computers. He formerly was a Hamilton County probation officer for four years before joining the Police Department.
Officer Kidd's evaluations question his motivation level but describe him as a good beat officer. He was reprimanded in October for failing to properly secure a prisoner in his cruiser. The prisoner escaped, stealing the officer's handcuffs.
He also received counseling from a supervisor that same month after he and Officer Johnson failed to properly handle some marijuana found on a suspect. Officer Johnson told supervisors they determined the pot wasn't real, so they threw it away.
Both officers had been assigned to third shift in District 1. Officer Johnson was transferred to first shift.
Roger Webster, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, did not return calls for comment. The union's membership voted this month not to allow union officials to speak with the Enquirer.
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