Rod Lautrec Carter, 45, who is employed as an investigator by the Department of Children and Family Services, LA’s Foster Care System, was allegedly caught having sex with a 15 year-old girl and arrested in San Bernardino. The girl may or may not have been a prostitute.
DCFS was willing to confirm that they were investigating such an incident involving one of their employees. However, department spokesman Nishith Bhatt made clear that no one else involved with the incident—meaning, one presumes, the girl— was in any way connected with the foster care system. Nor was the DCFS guy on duty at the time.
Bhatt did confirm that the DCFS guy has contact with children an families during his normal working hours.
In a statement, DCFS said it was their policy to place employees charged with a crime on administrative desk duty “pending completion of criminal and internal investigations.”
So what does all this mean? If the charges are true, is the guy just an idiot, or a pedophile? That much isn’t clear.