Dwight Toombs, Cop, Molests Girl, 15
December 27, 2007 by Morbid
FORT PIERCE – Fort Pierce Police Officer Dwight Toombs, 33, was arrested and charged with three felony counts of sexual battery on a person 12 years of age or older by a government agent and three felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery after he molested a girl he was investigating. The incident occured after Toombs had been called to investigate an incident of two people having sex in a car. The girl told police when Toombs arrived, she and the 20-year-old man were in the car and she was wearing only a T-shirt. Toombs reportedly asked them both for identification, handcuffed the man, went around to where the girl was sitting and handcuffed her, and “had her sit in the passenger seat and then told her to open her legs,’’ the report states.
Police say Toombs drove the man and girl to another location, where “he got three gloves from his car, put two of them on’’ and molested her again. Toombs fondled her twice and then made her touch herself, the report states. Toombs was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail and his bond was set at $900,000. The 20-year-old male is being investigated in regards to having sex with a minor.
This is not Toombs first run-in with trouble. He has three other reported incidents as well.
• OctoberOctober reviews
2004 – Toombs is fired by then-Police Chief Eugene Savage after an internal investigation found he struck an 11-year-old child with a belt in July. Toombs was found to have violated three department policies: conduct unbecoming an officer, commission of a felony and perjury in an official proceeding. However, City Manager Dennis Beach gave him back his job in NovemberNovember reviews with back pay and benefits to avoid “a long drawn-out hearing process,” BeachBeach reviews wrote in a memo.
• February 2006 – After participating in an incident that month where a 48-year-old man was given a Taser shock in the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute emergency room and died a month later, Toombs was placed on administrative leave with pay but was reinstated after an internal investigation.
• January 2007 – Toombs was suspended without pay for two days after spending more than an hour in a sex store while on duty with two other officers the previous November.
Also, you have to think that this wasn’t the first time this guy has done this. Curious if any other people will come forward now that he is in jail.
1:41 pm on December 27th, 2007
This is the danger of making it so hard for these people to lose their jobs. Teachers, too. Whenever you make it harder to be fired than to be hired on, you’re asking for trouble. It’s more than a strong union – it’s an environment conducive to corruption.
1:45 pm on December 27th, 2007
Agreed 100 percent.
2:05 pm on December 27th, 2007
In 2004, Mr. Beach fucked up. Toombs shouldn’t have been allowed to wear a badge after that. I wonder how Beach feels now that this story is out, and yes, I’ll be curious to see if anyone else comes forward.
2:20 pm on December 27th, 2007
I was hoping the 20 year old would go down for having sex with a 15 year old!
2:24 pm on December 27th, 2007
What?
2:24 pm on December 27th, 2007
Why did this asshole even have a job, Mr. Beach?!?!?!?!?
pms.247 – exactly, where is the charge against the 20yr old? The report says they are investigating the 20 yr old having sex with the 15 yr old girl – what’s to investigate, its already admitted to arrest the cop.
More bullshit!
2:24 pm on December 27th, 2007
It’s looking like that will still happen, PMS. He’s being investigated.
These poor parents…Their little girl’s whorish behavior led to her being victimised by a cop. Not that I’m playing “blame the victim”, here, but it’s safe to say this wouldn’t have happened had she been elsewhere…and clothed.
2:34 pm on December 27th, 2007
Damn, Athena – we usually don’t agree, but WOW! The girl is 15 – her parents should be more involved in the girls life – obviously. She was being molested by a 20 year old and a 33 year old. Teens can be swayed by adults, easily.
It is the adults behaviors that are to blame. THE GIRL IS 15!
2:46 pm on December 27th, 2007
The adults are absolutely to blame, but sparing the girl responsibility for her own actions is probably the exact brand of thinking that had led to this type of behavior in the first place. I was a 15 year old girl not all that long ago. I was no helpless fawn – I was fully aware of what I was engaged in.
In fact, my first sexual encounter was at the age of 15 with my 19 year old boyfriend (I didn’t lose my virginity until nearly 18, however). He could have been prosecuted for that, but why? I wasn’t harmed and the incident was completely consentual. Hell, he was my parents’ favorite of my boyfriends in high school. I was certainly not “swayed”, either. If anything, I was the aggressor.
Don’t get my started on bullshit age of consent laws. In some states, a 15 year old and a 20 year old is perfectly legal.
Lastly, while I am normally the first to call out any parents involved, my point here is that this is still a trying situation for them, whether or not they could have prevented it (which is unlikely).
3:19 pm on December 27th, 2007
“Don’t get my started on bullshit age of consent laws. In some states, a 15 year old and a 20 year old is perfectly legal. ”
Thank God that is not legal in my state!!!! I’ll agree that when I was 15, I wasn’t a helpless fawn, either. The older kids and adults, in my life – that were not authoritive figures – did figure largely into my thinking of what was acceptable and o-kay. Two of my brothers were 7 and 5 years older than I and most of my friends were their friends. I was always around an older crowd – and while you personally may not have been swayed – the majority of teens “wanting to fit in” with the older, driving crowd are swayed by older persons in their lives.
Most teens are not as stong willed as you seem to be. You, from this web-site, present yourself as such, and that you have probably been this way most of your life. Kudos to you for you strong beliefs, self-confidence, and the ability to follow through on them. But, the sad fact is most teens are not so determined to make it, as you probably were. Most teens do not have the confidence to say, “hey just because the older kids are doing it doesn’t make it right.” — you probably did. You probably did not fall to peer pressure like the average teen, because of your demeanor. I think that is a wonderful thing – and rare.
With all of that said – the girl is only 15. Yes, she consented, but she was still being taken advantage of by older adults. I did not say she didn’t bare any responsibility – but, the adults involved should bare the brunt of this mess.
3:52 pm on December 27th, 2007
Hmmm have to agree with Athena on this one. When I was 15, hell I was looking to lose my virginity. Most girls in my class had had sex already or were bragging about it (possibly fibbing) but hell, I felt left out. I also had a boyfriend that was 19. I remember my step-father being pissed about it and threatening stat. rape but my mom was like “Are you kidding?”. My mom sat me down and we discussed sex and birth control. (we’d had the first sex talk around 13) She was supportive. Looking back, 15 was too young but yeah, I KNOW the decision was mine and my “older boyfriend” didn’t lure me, a helpless child, into sex.
Pooh, I do hear you. Now that I have my own daughter who is 11. OMFG I look at 15 and think NO WAY. I do want to be responsible with my daughter and I know from my own experience, if someone wants to have sex, they will, so it’s best to be open about it and supportive (even if just a little). If my mother would have chewed my ass, and not talked to me about sex/relationships and birth control…maybe I wouldn’t have waited until I was 32 to have my first kid. I probably would of kept having sex as a teen-ager without proper birth control methods in place. btw it was 1979 when I was 15, so I realize times were a little different than now. I’ve already had the sex talk with my daughter. Girls are definitely influenced more now than when I was a teen, with 100’s of tv channels and the internet, there is a lot more out there.
4:21 pm on December 27th, 2007
I guess I took issue with the whole……”Their little girl’s whorish behavior led to her being victimised by a cop.” – and yes, she was victimised by a cop and a 20 year old. I do not like it at all, when adults like ourselves, label teens or their behaviors in terms such as that. I guess I feel words like those should be for labeling adults and their behaviors. If this 15 year old girl is like a girl I knew growing up – her mom taught her how to use her ass to get what she needed. I so hold that bitch responsible for her girl’s sorry life.
I do not say the 15 year old is blameless – what I am saying is most 15 year olds want to fit in – may want to lose their viginity – that does not make it right or the proper thing to do. I believe “most” younger teens wish to be like older teens and are influenced accordingly. At 15, you would not have caught me sitting only in a t-shirt, in a car – I would have been too embarrassed and scared that my mom would kill me to death. No, I do not think the parents could have stopped the girl – but could they have taught her to have more self-respect for herself? – maybe. Should the 20 year old have said “go home little girl”? – most certainly! And surely, I don’t have to address the cop past this one question – does the fact that he handcuffed the girl and got out rubber gloves not figure in anywhere……….she was probably scared to death – wondering if she would be raped and murdered.
Just because she was consenting to have sex with the 20 year old pedophile, doesn’t mean she wanted to have sex with the 33 year old cop, who is also a pedophile. And he definately used his position and power to molest this child.
People are actually buying into the bullshit of adult women being taken advantage of by a priest – using his position to sway them. Those were adult women saying they were victimized and influenced by a man of “power”. I do not see how it is so far fetched to think this little girl was a victim – not innocent, but a victim none the less.
4:25 pm on December 27th, 2007
Pooh, I really appreciate the fact that you consider me to be exceptional, but it was a simple biproduct of my upbringing. My parents always held me accountable for what I chose to do and, at times, what happened to me. For example, once, I was accosted by a would-be rapist while walking home alone at dark. While my parents consoled me regarding the scare it gave me, they were sure to scold me for putting myself in that position. I learned quickly that fault and responsibility are two different things; it was absolutely my attackers fault for attacking me, but I shared responsibility by providing him that opportunity when I had options and knew better.
So often, I listen to parents whine about external influences, how the friends their children associate with or the music they listen to causes them to behave badly. But that right there is the problem – if you train a child to believe they are so easily influenced, they will be.
Yes, we should absolutely expect adults to abide by the law. However, kids learn nothing if we ignore their responsibility for situations and instead focus on their victim status.
4:52 pm on December 27th, 2007
Athena, I am with you “mostly” – She is 15 she knew better to be in that position and she is the one who put herself there. Let me try again, as if I were her parent, I would more than scold her for actions. She would be in so much trouble for being out displaying that kind of behavior – sitting in a t-shirt in public, having sex in a car, not having any more self-respect for herself than that, the list goes on and on for what she would have been disiplined for.
I don’t think her actions were solely her own – adult influences. If she had been with another 15-16 year old – now then both of them would be entirely accountable/responsible.
But the guy was 20 – so he is MORE accountable/responsible. He has had more experience at “talking girls out of their panties”. As a teen, were you not more inclined to go along with the older crowd and what they were doing than kids your own age? 99% of teens are. I’m just saying she may have “gave it up” more easily to be with an older boy than she might have if the boy were her own “immature” age. I liked older boys – it wasn’t what was best for me, though.
5:39 pm on December 27th, 2007
I think we can “mostly” agree, here.
5:57 pm on December 27th, 2007
I’m remembering when I was a 14-yr-old wylde childe, trucking around at all hours of the night and some cop asking me if I needed a ride somewhere, and he was cute, but I turned him down and in retrospect, I’m glad.
And then remembering a cop friend in my twenties who would talk about cruising up to a couple in a parked car with his lights and motor off, then when he got behind them, flashing the red and blue lights and a little siren just to watch all the limbs and clothing flailing, and he’d just cruise off message taken.
Toombs is a creep.
6:10 pm on December 27th, 2007
Yeah, I got pulled over once when I was about 19 just because the cop wanted to ask me out. He was a good looking young man, but I had to explain to him that, because of the rather imposing nature of his strategy, I was going to have to turn him down. He was polite about it, apologising for the scare and looking like he had never even considered how creepy his approach was.
6:26 pm on December 27th, 2007
Yeah, I once had a cop harass me in a 7-11 when I was buying a slushy. He wouldn’t quit grabbing all over me. Telling me what he was going to do with his nightstick and stuff. I felt violated so I ran out into the parking lot. Me and my brother both jumped into my car through the windows and took off!
Then all of these cops were chasing us around all of these dirt roads but we kept making them crash and stuff because of my sweet driving skills. Then we saw that the road was closed but we didn’t care! We floored it and went faster! Luckily, there was a well placed lump of dirt at the en of the road shaped just like a ramp! We FLEW over a small creek and landed safely on the other side. BUT THE COPS DIDN’T! They went into the creek! We drove off to our Uncle Jesse’s house and we could see one of the cops in the car hitting the other with his hat! Good times…good times.
7:15 pm on December 27th, 2007
Athena & dammitall….man, I’ve had a few cop encounters. Some civil, never any come ons, several assholes. Once got hassled for no back seat in a slick ‘70 Charger I drove, I had a lot of trash in the back and the cop told me to clean out my car. I replied I didn’t know that having trash in the car was illegal. He then called me a “smart ass”. Had a cop yell in my face once, spitting the whole fucking time, threatening to “throw my ass against our van and cuff me” this was for possessing less than 7 gms. of marijuana. Mother fucker. Called me an unfit mother as well and threatened to call DFS on me????? Oh yeah, pot-smoking hippie mamas are a real threat to society. lmao
Morbid…your story is too funny….man, you are ate the fuck up.
7:37 pm on December 27th, 2007
I’ve only had a handful of cop run-ins. They’ve all either been standard or exceptionally civil. I’ve been lucky, I guess.
Less than 7 grams, Hippie? Man…anything less than 40 grams is practically decriminalised here in Seattle (if I recall correctly), unless it’s bagged up. Then they can get you on intent to sell. But just rollin’ around with a quarter ain’t no thang.
Here’s a great article regarding how 1-75 (the initiative to make pot arrests the city’s lowest priority) has changed the culture here: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25507
7:59 pm on December 27th, 2007
Morbid, lol, what the hell are you talking about???? I guess we all have a pervy cop story huh
8:12 pm on December 27th, 2007
Athena, you live in Seattle? I lived in Federal Way for 3 years when I was a child.
I read the link, and although it seems like a much better solution than the war on drugs, I dont know how I feel about the ones saying that we should legalize all drugs. It seems like every other murder we read about it committed while under the influence of some drug. I dont know what to think. What do you think?
8:14 pm on December 27th, 2007
Hell if I know.
8:31 pm on December 27th, 2007
Well, there’s no evidence that legalising drugs will lead to an increase in usage. In fact, during the period that pot was initially (nearly) decriminalised in Seattle, pot usage among teens dropped just slightly. The sad truth is, people will deal with drug-induced violence whether drugs are legal or not. In my experience, it’s not the criminalisation of drugs that keeps people away from them, it’s education.
By legalising (or simply decriminalising, slightly different) drugs of all kinds, we will be more open to honestly educate our kids. The dangers of drugs should be more than enough to deter kids…But what happens currently is that kids assume they’re being lied to about drugs as part of a ridiculous War on Drugs, and they often are. When an adult tells a kid that “Ecstasy puts holes in your brain” to try and scare them, and that kid eventually finds out that Ecstasy does no such thing, he won’t take any warnings seriously.
Instead of the constant (and ineffective) scare tactics and jail time, we should start out realistically. Lord knows, the reality is scary enough. But that way, our kids can take us seriously and make informed decisions.
Currently, drug laws ruin lives. I’ve never used hard drugs (coke, meth, heroin, etc.) because my parents were straight with me from the beginning and I choose not to take that risk. But I do know many recreational drug users, upstanding citizens with steady careers, who can use those drugs on pay day and be fine without it the rest of the week. These people will never be the ones to kill their spouses in a PCP fueled rage, but they will be the ones who have their lives ruined because of a simple possession of a narcotic charge, a felony in most places.
I just feel like, if we aim to keep kids off drugs, let’s do it. Throwing victimless criminals in jail isn’t helping that cause.
8:40 pm on December 27th, 2007
Morbid’s reliving a Dukes of Hazzard fantasy, but I think he’s getting a recovered memory with that nightstick stuff.
9:13 pm on December 27th, 2007
Very good point Athena. What we’re doing now is definitely not working, so it’s time to try something different. And one of the best things about doing that would be more police man-power and prison space for child molesters and murderers.
9:35 pm on December 27th, 2007
What a disgusting person this cop is. I don’t care what the girl was doing or the man with her in the car — the officer was WAY outside of anything legal and I hope spends some real time in jail.
10:58 pm on December 27th, 2007
He is disgusting and creepy. I wonder how many times he did this. He probably figured he could get away with it becuase she would be too scared to tell anyone about it becuase what she was doing in the first place was wrong. he is an evil person that took advantage of the situation. Thankfully she had the courage to come forward and tell someone about it. Who knows she could have been hooking in the car, but even if she was it wouldn’t excuse him from being a creepy pedophile. i think what is so disgusting about this is his job is to serve and protect not to hurt people.
9:56 am on December 28th, 2007
MG – ” i think what is so disgusting about this is his job is to serve and protect not to hurt people.”
A contradiction in terms –
11:41 am on December 28th, 2007
Exactly.
5:43 pm on December 28th, 2007
While on foot patrol along Hutchinson Island, Officer Dwight Toombs, 33, found the 15-year-old girl naked from the waist down in a parked car at Kimberly Bergalis Park with a 20-year-old man, according to an arrest affidavit. Toombs asked the man to get out of the car and then he handcuffed him. Toombs then handcuffed the girl, had her sit in the passenger’s seat and ordered her to spread her legs and then fondled her under the pretense he was examining her for sperm, according to an arrest affidavit.
He then advised the girl he was going to give them a warning as long as her mother knew they were out, the report states.
After using the girl’s cell phone to call her mother, Toombs then unhandcuffed the man and had him drive the three of them back to Toombs’ car parked at another beach access on Gulfstream Avenue.
The officer again handcuffed the man but not the girl. At that time, Toombs allegedly had the girl fill out a victim statement and went back to his car to get three gloves. He put two of the gloves on and again fondled the girl, the report states. He then took the third glove and told the girl to wipe her vagina and then told her to sign her name on the glove, according to the report.
Maybe he wanted a souvenir….
5:53 pm on December 28th, 2007
You know…After reading that again, I’d imagine that this must have been a tough situation for the boyfriend to bear. I know, had it been my boyfriend being handcuffed and watching me get fondled, he’d have wanted to kill the son of a bitch, and would probably deal with some self-worth issues after the fact, having been unable to protect me.
9:45 pm on December 28th, 2007
sorry, i have to work on my grammer
It should be:
i think what is so disgusting about this is his job is to serve and protect people, not to hurt them.
9:48 pm on December 28th, 2007
grammar and spelling!! is there a spell check on this thing???
2:38 am on December 30th, 2007
At 15 she knew what she was doing, but at 15 don’t you think she would have known that if there was an actual rape investigation, it isn’t the cop that does the examination?
I don’t think people (and I know she is young) educate themselves on their rights enough. The abuse of power by police is not a new thing. I worked briefly in a police department and was basically told on my first day, “What happens here stays here.” by the chief. I saw and heard all kinds of shady shit. And the whole stopping a hot girl just to get a date or talk to her was an everyday occurrence, even among the married officers.
1:32 pm on March 26th, 2009
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/22/fort-pierce-police-officer-found-guilty-molesting-/
A Fort Pierce police officer faces up to 65 years in prison after being found guilty Thursday afternoon of sexual battery and other charges for molesting a 15-year-old girl Dec. 18, 2007, at a Hutchinson Island beach parking lot
In all, Toombs was found guilty of four felonies — sexual battery by a government agent on a victim over 12, lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious conduct and attempted lewd or lascivious molestation — and one misdemeanor, battery.
Chief Assistant State Attorney Tom Bakkedahl noted that, as a former police officer, being in jail “will not be pleasant” for Toombs, giving him a “distinct motive” to flee before sentencing.
That’s an understatement-unpleasant Really?
just a update
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