NYPD sergeant accused of raping 15-year-old girl commits suicide: sources
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Friday, August 21, 2015, 4:52 AM
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In a 40-count indictment, a Brooklyn grand jury found that Doseau, who was assigned to Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, had an ongoing sexual relationship with the girl, now a woman in her early 20s.
An NYPD sergeant accused two weeks ago of raping a 15-year-old girl he met on the Internet killed himself Thursday, asphyxiating himself with a plastic bag in his childhood Brooklyn home, police sources said.
Joel Doseau, 43, was found dead shortly after 11 a.m. inside the E. 80th Street house near Glenwood Road in Canarsie. A suicide note was found on Doseau’s body identifying him by name, according to a source. The note said he was a cop.
“Tell my family I love them,” he wrote, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. The source didn’t know if he mentioned the girl he was charged with sexually assaulting.
Besides his legal woes, the cop also had financial troubles. His home was in foreclosure, the source said. The veteran cop’s world came crashing down Aug. 5 when he was arrested at his Bushwick apartment on a 40-count indictment that charged him with multiple counts of rape.
A Brooklyn grand jury said Doseau had an ongoing sexual relationship with the girl, now a woman in her early 20s, which started in 2008 when she was just 15, two years below the age of legal consent.
Sources said Doseau actually met the girl a year earlier, when she was just 14. He was freed on $100,000 bond.
KEN MURRAY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSAn investigator works at the scene of a Brooklyn suicide.
Among the charges Doseau faced were seven counts of rape, five counts of promoting the sexual performance of a child, 11 counts of sexual abuse and misconduct and three counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said.
The indictment said he knew his actions were “likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare” of the child.
Doseau, who earned more than $101,000 last year with overtime, was facing up to 15 years in prison on the top charge. He had 12 years on the job.
Neighbors near the Canarsie home said Doseau’s parents were dead, and that the house where the cop grew up has been vacant for some time, and may have also gone into foreclosure.
“He was a lonely guy,” said one Canarsie neighbor, who called the rape allegations “shocking.”
“He’s law enforcement,” the neighbor said. “He came from a decent home. I know his mother must be hurting in the grave.”
The rape victim had come forward recently, just days before the indictment, sources said.
Court papers said Doseau wooed the underage teen online, lying about his age. The girl believed him, according to the sources, and sent him nude photographs of herself. Talk, chats and secret picture posting soon turned into sex, which began some time in the summer of 2008.
The two allegedly had sex several times in an ongoing illicit relationship.
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