Prosecutors won’t charge Ohio trooper who masturbated with boy to teach him about sex

[DonViejo]

By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:22 EST

Prosecutors declined to charge an Ohio State Patrol trooper with a history of domestic violence who admitted to a sexual encounter with a boy.

State trooper Ricky Vitte Jr. told his wife that he had watched a pornographic video and masturbated with the boy five years ago, according to a report issued by the Sandusky County sheriff’s office.

Investigators said Vitte told his wife he was attempting to teach the boy about sex, The Sandusky Register reported.


“Rick’s reasoning is the fact that he did not want (the boy) to feel pressured on feeling the need to have to have sex with someone, when he can fix those needs by masturbating to porn,” wrote Deputy Sean O’Connell after speaking to the trooper’s wife.

Vitte claimed a dresser blocked their view of each other as they masturbated, according to the report.

Authorities said he engaged in such activities twice with the boy about five years ago.

Sandusky County Prosecutor Tom Stierwalt decided not to present the case to a grand jury because he said Vitte might have presented an explanation to justify this alleged actions.

“I can’t imagine a situation where that would be appropriate in our culture,” said clinical counselor Marlene Boas. “If he would’ve masturbated in the same room as (a pre-teen girl), do you think he would be prosecuted?”

Vitte fled when O’Connell and social workers attempted to interview him in the sex crime case, and deputies pursued him for about a mile.


“He was purposely fleeing the area to avoid confrontation and or an arrest,” O’Connell wrote in the report, but Vitte was not charged with fleeing law enforcement.

Vitte was charged with domestic violence 10 years ago after spanking his then-girlfriend’s 5-year-old son until his buttocks bled to punish the boy for wetting the bed, deputies said.

The trooper head-butted the child’s mother during an argument over the spanking.

Vitte later pleaded no contest and was convicted on a reduced charge of child endangering, authorities said.

The sheriff’s report on the sex crime investigation indicated that one of Vitte’s children told a social worker that his father had pushed him and shoved him and punched him at least once.

The trooper’s children also said they had seen their father punch holes in walls and doors when he was angry and drag their mother into another room to yell at her.

His wife, his ex-girlfriend and the boy he spanked have all taken out protection orders against Vitte, but those were modified to allow him to continue carrying a firearm as a state trooper.

The Sandusky Register reported that Vitte has been represented in the past by attorney Dean Henry, who has worked with O’Connell for more than a year as a special prosecutor and defense county during the investigation of another case.

Henry is representing Vitte in a domestic violence petition filed by the trooper’s wife, who is apparently seeking full custody of their five children and has requested that Vitte not be permitted access to them.

The deputy said the decision not to charge Vitte was made by the prosecutor, and O’Connell declined to say whether he had interviewed the state trooper in the sex crime case.

O’Connell indicated in his report that Stierwalt had declined to seek charges because too much time had passed since the incidents, although the statute of limitations in Ohio is six years for felonies.

Stierwalt declined to respond the newspaper asking why he had provided a defense for the suspect in a sex crime investigation.

Vitte’s personnel file shows that he’s in good standing as a state trooper, for which he’s paid $83,000 a year.

His father, Richard Vitte Sr., is a retired Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/prosecutors-wont-charge-ohio-trooper-who-masturbated-with-boy-to-teach-him-about-sex/

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[Atman]

1. In SANDUSKY County, no less!

Sorry. The guy is a sick f**k, but that gave me chuckle.

[Swede Atlanta]

2. This is a crock of doo-doo.......

What he did was child molestation even if he did not physically touch the boy.

He had to have discussed or potentially shown the boy how to manipulate his penis and then he was showing, to a minor, adult sexual pornography with the expectation that both he and the boy would have an orgasm. If he just wanted the boy to learn how to deal with his hormones why did he have to stay in the room? This is just creepy.

The article just says "a boy". I didn't read where this was a relative. What was their relationship.

It certainly wasn't the case in my home but I guess it is possible that some men teach their sons about masturbation and even show them where their stash of magazines or, these days, DVDs are. I suggest that even that can, given the specifics of how the son "teaches" his son(s), it might border on some form of molestation.

[kcr]

3. I wonder if it's the stepson that he beat bloody

This guy is a monster. I can't believe he's faced no consequences. And his ex is having to fight this scum for custody! It's sick.

[KansDem]

4. I must be getting old...

I remember a time when police officers just pulled out their batons.

[B Calm]

5. Reminds me of that preacher who said take your son into the shower and

compare your penis size.

[Niceguy1]

6. I guess the prosecution wasnt up

To the task.

[KansDem]

7. I was taken aback with this comment...

Sandusky County Prosecutor Tom Stierwalt decided not to present the case to a grand jury because he said Vitte might have presented an explanation to justify this alleged actions.

[kcr]

8. Really. What nonsense.

So this prosecutor only takes cases where the defense has no defense? I doubt that. He just didn't want to take this case. What a travesty.

[yurbud]

9. is there ANY boy who couldn't figure this out himself?

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. On bedwetting -

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Decades ago, I started dating a woman with a young boy, about 5 - 6 years old, long ago potty trained.

I noticed my gf getting up in the middle of the night - on questioning her, it was to change her son's pj's and bedsheets - he had developed this habit whenever she got a new boyfriend and they stayed over.

Pondering this - not liking my sleep-mate leaving the bed, I asked her to let me handle it one night - she agreed.

Next time he came into her room complaining of wetting the bed she told him I would take care of it. He reluctantly followed me back to his bedroom where I "handled" it.

He was an intelligent lad so I treated him as such. I told him I knew he was a young man, not a baby, and that this peeing the bed when his mother had company was just to get extra attention. While he looked at me questioningly I further told him " so - pee your bed if you want to and you have 2 choices - change it yourself, or sleep in it".

He slept in it that night - but never did it again.

(I changed the sheets for him after he left for school).

CC

[kcr]

12. When children wet the bed they aren't doing it on purpose

Your story is disgusting and exactly not the way to handle it. And I'm not buying your story that he never did it again.

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. It worked without any physical punishment - On the first try!

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AND

He never did it again, nor complained about the way I handled it.

His mother was surprised, impressed and grateful.

It is not a "story that he never did it again".

It is the truth.

Ponder this: - even grown men will piss themselves under stressful situations - to this child the diversion of attention was stressful, but learned (very quickly) that his reaction to "stress" over his mother having friends stay over was not acceptable, and there were uncomfortable consequences.

As I said, he was an intelligent lad, and responded maturely.

I am not insulted by your disgust,

just disappointed.

CC

[kcr]

15. Making a kid lie in his pee isn't physical punishment?

I beg to differ.

I don't believe you. Because they can't control it. But, even if I do give you the benefit of the doubt and he happened to stop just by chance? You punished and humiliated him for something he had no control over. Good job. That can cause psychological damage, btw. I hope everyone reading realizes that so no one else gets it in their heads to do the same thing.

[Tikki]

16. If the mom was getting up to change sheets and clothes, why not stop liquids earlier in the evening

and get up a couple times in the night and take him to the bathroom?

Some children (both our boys did) have to be trained further how to get up, walk to the bathroom, urinate
and then get back into bed…all while half asleep.

We set the alarm, got up and took them to the bathroom counting out the steps along the way.
Both boys were very sound sleepers but figured it out within a few weeks.

Parenting is hard work sometimes but well worth the effort.


The Tikkis

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. It was a control thing.

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The boy only did it when she had a sleeping partner.

Why is everyone missing this?

He was already in school.

I agree - "Parenting is hard work sometimes but well worth the effort"

I love kids, but letting them control YOU,

does not improve them.

Listening to them tho,

does.

CC

[snooper2]

11. Here is the original article "raw" story plagerized from

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/5202236

There is one grainy picture of the sick bastard here

https://www.google.com/search?q=Trooper+Ricky+Vitte+Jr.&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Bi_hUq22Es7isATyg4C4BA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1171&bih=607#facrc=_&imgrc=2nDILaAJ-xZIQM%253A%3BTHC-lKJI2IOJLM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F%25253Fitok%25253Dse0SsVOn%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sanduskyregister.com%252Farticle%252F5202236%3B300%3B300

[MineralMan]

13. Leave the kid alone, asshole!

He'll figure it out on his own in due time. Sheesh!