Sex appeal blinds protectors of justice, endangering children

July 10, 5:35 AMFamily Rights ExaminerTeri Stoddard

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In Volusia County, Florida, Deputy Agostinas was seen making out with Sheila Fuith in the Debary Station parking lot in April 2004. Agostinas was identified as the caller who spent three months threatening Karl Hindle, Fuith's ex-partner and father of the daughter she illegally abducted. Hindle says the caller threatened his "arrest and being shipped home in a body bag if I returned to Florida."

District Commander Captain Alan Osowski admitted in a depostion that he had falsified a police report that said Hindle had been stalking Fuith by phone. The numbers Fuith claimed Hindle had used to harrass her had been disconnected previously. Hindle's investigation shows that Osowski took a pretty woman's word instead of doing his job.

What could possibly cause a law enforcement officer to tell a concerned father, "The kid's got a good eye, what do you care!"? That's what Officer Frank Sclafani told Hindle in 2003, when he refused to deal with Hindle's criminal complaint of child medical neglect against the attractive Fuith when she refused to prevent their daughter from losing her sight in one eye.

How many other fathers are prevented from protecting their children, when male officers of the law are blinded by sex appeal?