A former Duke University administrator facing a sex crime charge involving his adopted five-year-old son will likely plead guilty later this month.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington D.C. formally charged Frank Lombard with sexual exploitation of a minor Tuesday, a felony that carries with it a 15-year prison sentence.
The charge comes in lieu of a grand jury indictment and is an indication that Lombard will accept the plea agreement, said Ben Friedman, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office.
Lombard will likely plead guilty to the charge Dec. 17, Friedman said.
Lombard's arrest was the result of an elaborate investigation involving the State Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation and a federal internet crimes task force.
According to an arrest affidavit, Lombard offered up the five-year-old boy for sex with an undercover officer contacted over the Internet.
The victim was one of two adopted children living with Lombard and his live-in male partner, according to the affidavit. Lombard admitted molesting the child but didn't do so when the live-in partner was home, according to the affidavit. (Click on the attachment below to read the affidavit in PDF form.)
Lombard had worked at Duke since 1999 and was associate director of the university's Center for Health Policy. He was a researcher who has obtained millions in federal grants to study HIV/AIDS in the rural south.
He is no longer employed by Duke.
Comments
He needs to be to death..
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 01:27 — bettyesue311There is no reason in my thought processes that this perverted creep needs to be kept alive, warm and fed in any sort of detention facility.. Chop him into small pieces and throw the refuse to the vultures.. And use all of the funds saved to promote Victim compensation programs and pay for the years of therapy this child will need ,to function as a normal human being. His childhood has been destroyed by this monster..
Debra Reece Simons
Asheville, NC
Let's hope he gets a horny
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 20:47 — RoroCALet's hope he gets a horny cell mate that can teach him how it feels to be victimized. Can you squeal like a pig???
In FL the mandatory sentence
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 19:07 — colt1911In FL the mandatory sentence for sexual battery on a victim younger than 12 is life without parole.
Considering that he also offered to prostitute the child, a sentence of 15 years is a joke and an insult to society. If justice is to be achieved, we will have to rely on an inmate to exact an appropriate punishment and I do not mean a blanket party.
Duke' hiring practices suspect
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 17:42 — SeafeverOld people are bad to hire, but child molesters--OK in the HR screen at Duke!
The important criterion is to be no older than 40-something, right, Duke hiring managers?
Scumbard should get life in prison for ruining this child's life, and for treating him like a piece of chattel!
Child molester
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 17:06 — charlesw62I hope this guys gets gang-raped every single day he spends in jail!!!
Lombard
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 18:10 — mamalisa1967Maybe he & that sick pervert involving Shaniya will be the "guests of honor" at nitely "blanket partys". It is my understanding that many guards turn a "blind eye" to such activitys.Way to go guards !!!!! Sadly, with all the training his partner had as a detective, he couldn't see what was happening in his own home. If only the child had "told on" Lombard,,,,, maybe his partner could have stopped it. After reading the affidavit, he certainly had the training for it. My prayers are with that precious child, I'm sure he faces YEARS of counseling. Lombard must have been 1 hell of smooth talker, to even be able to adopt 2 kids.