Are You Freaking Kidding Me?: The "Hand of Justice" Gets Off in Sandusky County

01.24.2014

Ohio trooper won't be prosecuted for masturbating with boy to teach him about sex 

Ricky Vitte Jr. claimed he 'did not want (the boy) to feel pressured on feeling the need to have to have sex with someone, when he can fix those needs by masturbating to porn,' according to a report. So he twice engaged in the act with the pre-teen boy five years ago, but claimed a dresser blocked their views of each other.

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An Ohio state trooper won’t be prosecuted for masturbating with a pre-teen boy ‘to teach him about sex.’

An Ohio state trooper who watched porn and masturbated with a young boy to teach him about sex will not be charged with any offense.

State trooper Ricky Vitte Jr. will go entirely unpunished and remain in his $83,000-a-year job despite reportedly confessing to carrying out the sick sex act twice with the pre-teen five years ago.

Vitte is said to have told his wife all about the seedy rendezvous.

He claimed that he "did not want (the boy) to feel pressured on feeling the need to have to have sex with someone, when he can fix those needs by masturbating to porn."

A dresser was also blocking their view of each other as they pleasured themselves, Deputy Sean O'Connell added.

Sandusky County Prosecutor Tom Stierwalt said, on that basis, he wouldn't present the case to a grand jury.

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Sandusky Ohio County Prosecutor Tom Stierwalt decided not to present the trooper’s case to a grand jury because he said the trooper might have presented an explanation to justify his alleged actions.

Vitte, he reasoned, might be able to defend himself against the alleged actions.

The decision angered clinical counselor Marlene Boas, who asked the Sandusky Register whether it would have been the same outcome if the alleged victim had been a girl.

"I can't imagine a situation where that would be appropriate in our culture," Boas told the newspaper.

"If he would've masturbated in the same room as (a pre-teen girl), do you think he would be prosecuted?" she added.

Raw Story reports that it's not the first time the law enforcer has himself been in trouble with the law.

Ten years ago Vitte was charged with domestic violence after spanking his then-girlfriend's 5-year-old son until his buttocks bled and head-butting his mom when she complained.

Vitte is also fighting a custody battle over his five children with his wife, who claims he punched holes in walls and doors when he was angry.

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