Duke U. Official Caught in Alleged Child Sex Sting
Official Accused of Offering Adopted 5-Year-Old Son for Sex
By JACK DATE
June 26, 2009
A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director of
the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said.
An unidentified informant who already faces child porn charges in a different child sex case pointed investigators to Lombard, according to court
documents. The informant told investigators he had met Lombard on the Internet four years ago. The informant described in graphic detail how he
allegedly observed Lombard molesting an African-American child on four occasions over an Internet video chat service called ICUii.
The informant said, according to court papers, that Lombard, who is white, said that he lived in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and that
the child was one of two adopted African-Americans in his custody.
Lombard has been charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in sex with a child, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20
years in prison.
Lombard allegedly used the adult Internet service to conduct his video chats. According to an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, the Internet
service indicated that Lombard's profile "stated he was interested in "perv fam fun," a reference to "incestuous child molestation." The service also
told investigators that a customer service complaint had been sent to the company in January 2007. A customer who had chatted with Lombard complained
to the company that Lombard said he was "into incest" and had adopted two African-American children, court records said.
A Washington, D.C., police detective who was investigating the case set up undercover chats with someone matching Lombard's description during which
the detective says he was invited to fly to Raleigh to have sex with the person's 5- year-old adopted child. In his affidavit, Det. Timothy Palchak
wrote that he engaged in a chat with someone using the screen name "FL" who provided nude pictures of himself. The pictures matched Lombard's North
Carolina driver's license photo, according to the affidavit.
During the chats, according to the affidavit, "FL" told undercover investigators that he had himself molested his child, whom he adopted as an infant,
and that he had allowed others to molest his child. "FL" stated that "the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know
what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation," Palchak wrote in his affidavit.
Duke Suspect on Unpaid Leave
Two children were taken from Lombard's home and put into protective custody by the North Carolina Department of Social Services, an FBI statement
said.
Michael Schoenfeld, a Duke University spokesman, told ABC News that Lombard has been placed on unpaid leave and that the university is cooperating
fully with the investigation. Lombard has been employed by Duke since 1999, Schoenfeld said.
Appearing today in federal court in Durham, Lombard agreed to be transferred to Washington for a later court hearing. His lawyer did not immediately
return a call seeking comment.
those poor, poor children.clevohardcore - 6-30-2009 at 09:05 PM
I don't even know what to say. That demon must be killed. CR83 - 6-30-2009 at 10:05 PM
This just flat out makes me sad. Poor kids. That fucker needs to be slowly skinned alive and force fed shit.BKT - 6-30-2009 at 10:10 PM
General population.
MM.tireironsaint - 7-1-2009 at 12:33 AM
I'm sick right now. I want to hurt that scumbag and make him die knowing he's a worthless piece of shit.Discipline - 7-1-2009 at 08:23 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by metal mulisha
General population.
MM.
With a big fucking sign around his neck stating what he did.MikeResist - 7-1-2009 at 09:35 AM
"Lombard has been charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in sex with a child, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20
years in prison."
If this guy only gets 20 years then that is fucked up. I don't believe in the death penalty, but this scumbag should rot away in jail and I hope he
gets whats coming to him there.BKT - 7-1-2009 at 09:46 AM
You should be happy with 20 years. In Canada he would probably be out in 20 minutes. Our country is a fucking joke when it comes to shit like this.
MM.barc0debaby - 7-1-2009 at 10:20 AM
He will get handled by other inmates. The guards will leak what he is in for.
