Fla. teen gets $35K in topless lawsuit

**BEB** · 01-27-07, 12:44 PM

If a Shawn Patrick Shields ever comes sniffing around your department looking for a job...I'll leave that up to you.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssen...l/16558136.htm

Fla. teen gets $35K in topless lawsuit
Associated Press

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A teenager who sued the city after claiming a police officer forced her to do jumping jacks while topless has reached a $35,000 settlement, officials said.

The City Council unanimously approved the settlement Thursday, City Manager Tom Bonfield said.

Officer Shawn Patrick Shields found the girl, then 16, and a 19-year-old man together in a parked car in April 2003. Shields ordered the two teens out of the car, then told them he could arrest them for lewd and lascivious behavior, authorities said.

The girl told investigators that Shields told her to perform five topless jumping jacks, which she said she did as he shone his flashlight on her.

Both teenagers passed polygraph tests.

Shields was later fired and pleaded no contest to extortion. He was placed on probation for two years in December 2003 and ordered to write a letter of apology to the girl.

The name of the girl's attorney was not immediately known.

**Pedro56** · 01-27-07, 12:48 PM

This story is no good without pictures, or video.

**Ducky** · 01-27-07, 01:33 PM

He wouldn't be able to pass a background.

**J-WS6** · 01-27-07, 05:42 PM

When they said lawsuit, he shoulda said "Thats fine... tell your boyfriend to come see me so I can arrest him for sexual battery on a minor."

**narcodog** · 01-27-07, 06:34 PM

Whew, I guess I'm lucky. Back in the day I would make them both get out their ride and get in the back of my unit, sans clothes then "call" their parents. you talk about some beggin and squallin. I'd laugh my ass off. Oh I wasn't the only one. That was before sexual battery on a minor. It was a kind of teen birth controll.

**J-WS6** · 01-27-07, 06:47 PM

doh.. my bad.. for some reason I read her age as 15 instead of 16... there is no pentalty when both parties are between 16-23.

**Pedro56** · 01-27-07, 07:09 PM

First off he was a jackass for making them do anything. I usually tell them to hit the high road, and BTFO (Bug the fuck out) and find a place where I wont find you next time (in other words stay the fuck out of my sleeping hole)