Pa. State Trooper Charged With Child Endangerment After Allegedly Pepper Spraying Girlfriend’s Son

One
more story about a cop facing charges before 2013 comes to a
close.

From WTAE:

Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Ernest Boatright is
charged with endangering the welfare of children and harassment
after police said he shot pepper spray into the bedroom of his
girlfriend’s 13-year-old son.

According to court papers, Boatright found the teen still in bed
when he was supposed to be in school, so he discharged his pepper
spray in to the bedroom.

The criminal complaint said that the boy immediately
began to cough, sneeze and suffer from runny eyes and nose. Police
said that the boy knew he had been pepper-sprayed because Boatright
had pepper-sprayed him before.

Boatright was suspended, without pay.

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