Price said Abuslin has been a victim of sex trafficking since she was 12 years old. RELATED: Celeste Guap expected to accept plea deal in Florida The most serious charges are for two officers accused of felony oral copulation with a minor. There is no reason at all for why she is in Florida.'Ībuslin is expected to testify against seven current and former law enforcement officers, including five from the Oakland Police Department, who Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced last week would be facing criminal charges. 'She is a witness to criminal activity, to criminal conspiracy in the Bay Area. 'As a lawyer, I don't tamper with witnesses,' she said. The kind of treatment she needs is not from a drug rehab facility,' Price said. 'We have many lovely facilities in the Bay Area and throughout California. Price stood by the just-released Guap at a news conference in Florida later today announcing their intention to return to California, where the officers involved are expected to be prosecuted, and Price said she would file a lawsuit against an undisclosed number of officers. RELATED: I-TEAM EXCLUSIVE: Livermore cop speaks out about sex scandal While they did not immediately disclose the conditions of the plea deal, they said it contained a stipulation that she would not have a criminal record. The key witness in a Bay Area police sexual exploitation scandal who prosecutors need to come back to California to file charges against seven current and former law enforcement officers has been released from a Florida jail.Ĭalifornia attorneys Pamela Price and Charles Bonner announced in a statement that the 19-year-old woman known as Celeste Guap pleaded no contest to misdemeanor simple battery today. Her lawyer spoke at a news conference after she was released from jail, saying the woman known as Celeste Guap is dead. The woman at the center of a sex scandal involving several police officers in the Bay Area has accepted a plea deal for battery.įLORIDA (KGO) - The woman at the center of a sex scandal involving several police officers in the Bay Area, 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, has accepted a plea deal for battery.

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