Manassas, VA - On Sunday morning, Prince William County police arrested Harold Rodman, 52, after a 37-year-old woman reported that a man approached her on the street, displayed a badge and then sexually assaulted her.
The man fled the scene on foot and police quickly found him as he lives only a few houses away from the victim.
According to police, Rodman, a Transportation Security Administration employee allegedly showed the victim his TSA badge and was actually wearing his uniform at the time of the assault.
Rodman is charged with aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and abduction with intent to defile.
This is only the latest incident involving a TSA worker accused of committing sex crimes, sometimes against children.
-September 2011, TSA worker David Ralph Anderson, 61, was arrested at the Elko Area Regional Airport and charged with six counts of lewdness with a child.
Anderson had been under investigation since July, when the Elko County Sheriff’s Office was notified of alleged sexual contact between Anderson and the young girl.
According to court documents, the girl told detectives that on as many as 10 separate occasions between 2010 and 2011, Anderson instructed her how to perform various sex acts and engaged in mutual sexual contact with her.
Anderson also reportedly told the victim to sleep with him in his bed and taught her to say various vulgarities, made her watch pornographic videos, gave her alcohol, rubbed lotion over her body, kissed and fondled her.
-March 2011, TSA screener Thomas Gordon Jr. working at Philadelphia International Airport was arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.
Gordon, who began working for the TSA in 2005, allegedly uploaded more than 100 pornographic images of young girls via Facebook and Photobucket.
One of the pictures was reportedly of Gordon in his blue TSA uniform.
The federal indictment says that Gordon used multiple Facebook accounts “to upload and store images of sexual exploitation of minor children.”
-November 2010, Transportation Security Administration agent Sean Shanahan, 45, of Winthrop, Massachusetts has been arrested and charged with statutory rape, enticement of a child and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older.
Winthrop Police began their investigation when the girl’s father saw sexually explicit text messages on his daughter’s cell phone, allegedly sent by Shanahan.
Shanahan worked as a TSA agent at Logan International Airport in Boston.
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