Police: Duke University official offered adopted son for sex

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<p>**Could anything be more cruel than that? **</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) – A Duke University official is accused of offering his 5-year-old adopted son for sex on the Internet, according to the FBI and court documents in the case.</p>

<p>Frank M. Lombard, 42, was arrested last week at his home in Durham, North Carolina. During an Internet chat, Lombard allegedly offered the child to the person he was chatting with, who was a task force officer from Washington’s Metropolitan Police, the FBI said in a statement.</p>

<p>The chat was initiated after a confidential source facing child pornography charges told authorities they had witnessed a man, allegedly Lombard, performing sex acts on a child over the Internet.</p>

<p>During the chat, according to the complaint filed against Lombard, he told the officer that he had performed multiple sex acts on the boy and that the officer could do the same if he came to Durham.</p>

<p>According to a transcript of the chat, reprinted in the complaint, Lombard allegedly told the officer that he had to hide the abuse from his partner and that he drugged the child with allergy medication.</p>

<p>Lombard was arrested June 24, and two children at the home, including the 5-year-old, were removed from the home by the North Carolina Department of Social Services, the FBI said.</p>

<p>Lombard is the associate director of Duke University’s Center for Health Policy, but was placed on unpaid administrative leave, effective immediately, last week, university spokesman Keith Lawrence said.</p>

<p>The center is described on its Web site as a joint venture among the university’s law, business and arts-and-sciences schools and “an instigator and facilitator of a broad range of research related to public health and the policies that address it.”</p>

<p>Lombard faces federal child sex abuse charges, which carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years upon conviction, authorities said. He made an initial appearance in federal court in North Carolina but was transferred to Washington to face the charges there, court documents show.</p>

<p>Attempts to contact the Durham attorney who appeared in court with Lombard were unsuccessful Tuesday.</p>

<p>Federal agents seized Lombard’s computer, thumb drives, Web cams and other items when executing a search warrant upon Lombard’s arrest, according to court documents. </p>

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<p>He will certainly not be winning any Father of the Year contests.</p>

<p>People like this are scum and a pathetic excuse for a human. Plain and simple. I can’t think of any way a person can recover from this kind of shame or sickness. </p>

<p>Poor kid.</p>

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<p>They’ll take care of him in prison.</p>

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<p>This story is being discussed in the Politics forum, under the unlikely title, “The social worker who approved this adoption should be imprisoned”… as if the guilty party in this matter is the social worker who approved the adoption. There are strange people out there, both on and off cc.</p>

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<p>NJres, it’s just a nice way to cover up for Duke. I am sure that a lot of people on this thread are not too happy that I or whoever else post this story out there.</p>

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<p>Well, a couple of years ago, we had this:</p>

<p>[Lehigh</a> U. Administrator Is Arrested in Child-Sex Case - Chronicle.com](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/news/article/2675/lehigh-university-administrator-arrested-in-child-sex-case]Lehigh”>http://chronicle.com/news/article/2675/lehigh-university-administrator-arrested-in-child-sex-case)</p>

<p>It shows that sexual abuse is not limited to the uneducated and the poor, as many would like to believe.</p>

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<p>There are creeps and pervs in all walks of life, unfortunately.</p>

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<p>You’re right, LGM and MWFN. This is a sad reminder of that fact.</p>

<p>The potential prison sentence absurdly inadequate for a crime of this magnitude. Although, I do believe his fellow prisoners will take care of him. </p>

<p>“Lombard faces federal child sex abuse charges, which carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years upon conviction, authorities said.”</p>

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<p>Child abusers are looked at too kindly within the walls of the prisons. Agreed that up to 20 years seems like not nearly enough time, but he’ll most likely get whats coming to him during that time…</p>

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<p>He will create an Ivy league education in the prison system</p>

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Or, <em>cough</em>, a dating service.</p>

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<p>“It shows that sexual abuse is not limited to the uneducated and the poor, as many would like to believe.”</p>

<p>Why would child sexual abuse be limited to the uneducated and poor? I never really understood assumptions like this, because the type of person who would sexually abuse a child has a sort of perversion that has nothing to do with where he or she came from, or so I would think. A pervert is a pervert whether a high school drop out or Harvard educated. </p>

<p>That being said, what happened to that poor child is terrible, and something he may never fully recover from. Sexual abuse is just heinous beyond my realm of understanding. I just cannot fathom how you could knowingly do that to a child.</p>

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<p>Julie , one needs to be Ivy League educated to understand it.LOL</p>