Larry Seay is accused of sexually assaulting three women
while he was in uniform patrolling his Northwest Washington beat. Seay, 39, a 3rd
District patrol officer who has been suspended without pay, is charged with
several counts of sexual assault. The women at one time worked as prostitutes
in the area of 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW, where Seay patrolled,
prosecutors said.
One of the womentestified Wednesday that she was accosted
one evening in July 2010 as she walked to a gas station to buy a pack of
cigarettes. She said she was seven months pregnant at the time.
The woman said Seay approached her, asked where she was
going and searched her purse. She said he ordered her to meet him in an alley,
where he offered her $50. Seay told her that if she refused him, he would “make
something happen” and arrest her, the woman testified.
The woman testified that she and Seay went into an apartment
building and that he assaulted her in the stairwell. “I was scared and very
reluctant,” the woman testified
A second woman, who is now a college student in Northern
Virginia testified that she was walking to meet a friend in July 2010 when
Seay, in a police van, stopped her and ordered her to meet him in a nearby
alley. The 38-year-old woman testified that Seay refused to wear a condom. “He
made me have sex with him when I didn’t want to unprotected,” she said, at
times in tears.
The woman said after they had sex, he threw $40 on the
ground and wiped himself with a tissue. She said she stuffed the tissue and
money in her purse and then went to a hospital, where she told a nurse she had
been raped by a police officer.
The Seay case is not the only recent criminal case involving
a D.C. officer.
In October, an officer was charged with firing his service
weapon into an occupied car after trying to pay a transgender woman for sex in
2011. The officer, Kenneth Furr, was acquitted of the more serious charge of
assault with intent to kill but was found guilty of solicitation and assault
with a deadly weapon.
In another case, Wendel Palmer, a 22-year veteran of the
force, is awaiting trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl.
