Duke University official accused of pimping-out his 5-year-old son

June 30, 2:07 AMNorfolk Crime ExaminerDave Gibson

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Frank Lombard

Last week, FBI agents along with Durham police officers arrested associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy Frank M. Lombard, 42 of 24 Indigo Creek Trail in Durham. Lombard is accused of inviting another man to travel to North Carolina in order to molest his adopted 5-year-old son. The other man, turned out to be a police officer posing as an online predator.

The internet sting targeting child molesters was conducted by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, along with the FBI.

Allegedly, on at least three occasions Lombard could be seen via webcam performing oral sex and other sex acts on his adopted son. Apparently, Lombard had allowed other individuals to molest the child as well.

Lombard is alleged to have told the D.C. Metropolitan police detective, that he had performed several sex acts on the 5-year-old and told the detective that he could have his way with the child if he flew to the Raleigh/Durham area. Lombard even provided the detective with a recommendation for hotel accommodations.

In 2007, an unknown internet user had filed a complaint against Lombard for similar activities. In a sworn affidavit, that user claimed Lombard said he "was into incest" and had adopted two black children.

The disturbing chat transcripts have been released which show Lombard being asked how he has access to the little boy, to which Lombard simply replies: "Adopted." He went on to describe the adoption process as "not so hard ... especially for a black boy."

Lombard also told the investigator that molesting the child was "easier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn't talk ...He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out."

Lombard is homosexual and lives with his boyfriend and their two adopted sons. Both children are now in the custody of the North Carolina Department of Social Services.

Lombard who has a master's degree in social work, is employed by Duke as a health-disparities researcher, studying HIV/AIDS in the rural South.

Interestingly enough, Lombard often talks about the exploitation of poor blacks, while he was himself exploiting a black child for his own perverse sexual gratification.

Lombard is now being held without bond at the Durham County Jail. If convicted, h is facing a possible sentence of 20 years.

*Reporter’s note: Every week, I sift through dozens of cases in which children have been harmed by their parents, as well as by strangers. In order to effectively report on these crimes, I must make an effort not to become emotionally involved. However, a number of these cases are so heinous that effort becomes impossible. This is one of those cases.

The thought that someone would adopt a child for the sole purpose of sexually attacking him is as inhuman and evil an act to which one could sink. In my opinion, Frank Lombard should be drawn and quartered. However, since such punishment is no longer possible in our supposedly civilized society, the next best thing would be to place Lombard into the general population of one of North Carolina’s toughest prisons.