Neil David Kimball

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1. L.A. County sheriff’s detective gets 3 years in prison for assaulting girl in case he investigated, Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2019.
2. L.A. County sheriff’s sex crimes detective admits assaulting girl in case he investigated, Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2019.
3. LA Detective Jailed for Sexually Assaulting Child While Investigating Separate Abuse Crime Against Her, Newsweek, August 9, 2019.
4. GREGORY D. TOTTEN District Attorney NEWS RELEASE / Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced to Prison for 2017 Child Molestation, District Attorney Ventura California / Gregory D. Totten District Attorney, August 9, 2019.
5. Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039799 / Superior Court of California, Ventura County, California Court Records / Ventura County, October 1, 2017.
6. Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039660 / Superior Court of California, Ventura County, California Court Records / Ventura County, January 21, 2022.
7. Detective who raped victim while investigating her case gets 3 years in prison, WTAE ABC, August 13, 2019.
8. Detective Gets 3 Years For Sexually Assaulting Girl He Was Supposed To Be Helping After She Reported A Rape, Oxygen True Crime, August 9, 2019.
9. Sheriff's sex crimes detective arrested on suspicion girl in case he was investigating, Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2018.
10. A Girl, 15, Reported a Sexual Assault, Then the Detective Abused Her, Too, The New York Times, July 17, 2019.
11. Breaking News 15-Year-Old Girl Who Filed Rape Allegation Was Sexually Assaulted By Detective Who Was Supposed To Investigate It, Oxygen True Crime, July 17, 2019.
12. Judge Approves $5.5 Million Settlement for Teen Sexually Abused by Sheriff's Detective , NBC 4 Los Angeles, June 30, 2020.
13. Teenage girl making sexual abuse claim sexually assaulted by detective dealing with case, Independent, July 19, 2019.
14. Los Angeles Sex Crimes Detective Arrested For Allegedly Raping Teen Girl, Huffpost, November 22, 2018.
15. LA Sheriff's Detective Arrested For Rape, Witness Tampering, CBS News, November 19, 2018.

• 1. L.A. County sheriff’s detective gets 3 years in prison for assaulting girl in case he investigated

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  A Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigator assigned to handle sexual abuse crimes was sentenced to three years in state prison after he admitted to sexually assaulting a minor in 2017.

  Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura was sentenced to the maximum term of three years in state prison for committing a lewd act on a 15-year-old child and unlawful sexual intercourse, the Ventura County district attorney’s office announced Thursday.

  Kimball pleaded guilty to the child molestation charges in July and as part of the plea agreement he must register as a sex offender, prosecutors said. Kimball was also ordered to pay the victim $50,000 for her pain and suffering.

  The deputy, who investigated dozens of child molestation cases in L.A. County for the Sheriff’s Department’s sex crimes unit since 2013, met the 15-year-old after she reported being a victim of sexual assault. While Kimball was investigating her case, authorities said, he befriended the girl and assaulted her in Camarillo.

  After it was announced that Kimball pleaded guilty on July 10, sheriff’s officials said that Kimball’s pay was suspended and the agency obtained court documents to proceed with his immediate termination.

  Kimball met the victim during the “scope of his work,” a department spokeswoman told The Times last year.

  The 20-year department veteran was arrested in November after a month-long investigation. He was then relieved of duty with pay after a complaint about him from a member of the public sparked an internal criminal investigation.

  Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told The Times last year that Kimball had been at a medical facility, away from the Special Victims Bureau, in the months before his arrest. A colleague who took over some of his criminal investigations then learned of the accusation against Kimball after contacting people involved in the deputy’s cases.

  “We hold all our employees to the highest ethical standard and when that standard is not met there must be consequences,” the Sheriff’s Department declared in a statement, saying it “has fully cooperated with the Ventura County District Attorney Office’s prosecution of Neil Kimball.”

  In 2009, a few years before he joined the sex crimes unit, Kimball was investigated for sexual battery but was not charged with a crime. In that case, a woman told the Sheriff’s Department that Kimball, while on duty, had grabbed her hand and tried to make her touch his genitals, according to a memo from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

  When Kimball was initially charged in November with forcible rape of the teen — including a special circumstance allegation that the victim was bound — and dissuading a witness by force or threat, he pleaded not guilty.

  The prosecution then filed an amended complaint with the charges to which he ultimately admitted, according to the Ventura County Star.

  Times staff writers Maya Lau and Richard Winton contributed to this report.

• 2. L.A. County sheriff’s sex crimes detective admits assaulting girl in case he investigated

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  L.A. County sheriff’s sex crimes detective admits assaulting girl in case he investigated
  Neil Kimball was arrested in November. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison as part of a plea agreement and must register as a sex offender. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)

  A Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigator assigned to handle sensitive sexual abuse crimes pleaded guilty this week to sexually assaulting a minor in 2017.

  The Ventura County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday that Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura pleaded guilty to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison as part of a plea agreement and must register as a sex offender.

  The deputy, who investigated dozens of child molestation cases in L.A. County for the sheriff’s sex crimes unit since 2013, met the 15-year-old after she reported being a victim of sexual assault. While Kimball was investigating her case, authorities said, he befriended the girl and assaulted her in Camarillo.

  Sheriff’s officials said Friday that Kimball’s pay was suspended March 4 and the agency has now obtained court documents to proceed with his immediate termination.
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  Kimball met the victim during the “scope of his work,” a department spokeswoman told The Times last year.

  The 20-year department veteran was arrested in November after a monthlong investigation. He was relieved of duty with pay after a complaint about him from a member of the public sparked an internal criminal investigation.

  Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told The Times last year that Kimball had been at a medical facility, away from the special victims bureau, in the months before his arrest. A colleague who took over some of his criminal investigations then learned of the accusation against Kimball in October after contacting people involved in the deputy’s cases.

  “We hold all our employees to the highest ethical standard and when that standard is not met there must be consequences,” the Sheriff’s Department declared in a statement, saying it “has fully cooperated with the Ventura County District Attorney Office’s prosecution of Neil Kimball.”

  In 2009, a few years before he joined the sex crimes unit, Kimball was investigated for sexual battery but was not charged with a crime. In that case, a woman told the Sheriff’s Department that Kimball, while on duty, had grabbed her hand and tried to make her touch his genitals, according to a memo from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

  When Kimball was initially charged in November with forcible rape of the teen — including a special circumstance allegation that the victim was bound — and dissuading a witness by force or threat, he pleaded not guilty.

  The prosecution filed an amended complaint Tuesday with the charges to which he ultimately admitted, the Ventura County Star reported.

  Kimball is expected to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on Aug. 8 for sentencing.

  Times staff writers Maya Lau and Richard Winton contributed to this report.

• 3. LA Detective Jailed for Sexually Assaulting Child While Investigating Separate Abuse Crime Against Her

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  A sex crimes detective at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who admitted to abusing a 15-year-old girl after she came forward to report being a victim of sexual assault has been jailed for three years.

  Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective Neil Kimball, 46, of Agoura, California, was handed the maximum sentence after he pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act on a 15-year-old child and unlawful sexual intercourse, the Ventura County District Attorney's Office said in statement.

  Kimball met the victim in 2017 while he was working as detective with the Special Victim's Unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

  Senior Deputy District Attorney Patrice Koenig said that after the girl came forward to claim she had been abused in the Los Angeles area, Kimball kept in contact with the girl and spent time with her outside of the investigation, reports the Ventura County Star.

  Kimball is alleged to have committed sex crimes with the child in his mobile home in the Camarillo area between October and December 2017.

  Attorney Gloria Allred read out a statement on behalf of the victim ahead of the sentencing at Ventura County Superior Court.

  "I don't understand why we live in a world where our most-trusted are the ones to turn and deceive you, to leave you hurt and hopeless," Allred read, reports KABC.

  "I have lost all faith in my county's sheriff's department, as well as the judicial system which is only giving this defendant the minimal sentence."

  As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Kimball had investigated dozens of child abuse cases during his five years at the Special Victims Unit.

  "This is a shock. The unit has never had something like this happen," retired Sheriff's Department sergeant Dan Scott said following his arrest in November 2018.

  Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell added to KABC following Kimball's sentence: "When somebody in any position of public trust takes advantage of that position to hurt somebody else, it hits us all right in the heart."

  The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department previously announced they will be reviewing around 300 cases which Kimball worked on during his time at the Special Victims Bureau to determine if any other criminal or improper actions occurred.

  Kimball was also ordered to register as a sexual offender, pay the victim $50,000 for her pain and suffering. He has also been ordered to have no future contact with the teenage victim.

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  Neil Kimball received the maximum sentence 3-year sentence felony lewd act on a child and felony unlawful sexual intercourse. | Ventura County Sheriff's Office/Ventura County Sheriff's Office

• 4. GREGORY D. TOTTEN District Attorney NEWS RELEASE / Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced to Prison for 2017 Child Molestation

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  GREGORY D. TOTTEN
  District Attorney
  NEWS RELEASE
  http:/www. vcd istrictattorney. com
  Twitter: @VenturaDAOffice
  Contact: Patrice Koenig
  Senior Deputy District Attorney
  Telephone: (805) 654-2499
  E-mail: Patrice.koeni ventura.or
  Approved: MKF?1)
  Date: August 8, 2
  Release No.: 19-091
  Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced to Prison for 2017 Child Molestation
  VENTURA, California - District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Neil David Kimball
  (DOB 6/13/73), of Agoura, CA, was sentenced to the maximum term of three years in state prison for
  committing a lewd act on a 15-year-old child and unlawful sexual intercourse.
  Kimball, while serving as a detective with the Special Victim's Unit of the Los Angeles County
  Sheriffs Department, met the 15-year-old victim in 2017 when she reported being a victim of sexual
  assault in Los Angeles County. While investigating that case, Kimball befriended the victim and
  sexually assaulted her.
  In addition to the term in state prison, Kimball was ordered to register as a sexual offender, pay the
  victim $50,000 for her pain and suffering and have no contact with the victim. The case was
  investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department and prosecuted by the Ventura County
  District Attorney's Sexual Assault and Family Protection Unit.
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  The Ventura County District Attorney's Office is the public prosecutor for the county's 850,000 residents.
  The office employs approximately 280 employees including attorneys, investigators, victim advocates,
  and other professional support staff who strive to seek justice, ensure public safety, and protect the rights
  of crime victims.
  Follow the Ventura County District Attorney's Office on Twitter@VenturaDAOffice

• 5. Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039799 / Superior Court of California, Ventura County

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  Name Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039799
  Citation Number Violation Date 10/01/2017 Case Status Convicted
  Arresting / Issuing Agency Ventura County Sheriff Department Offense Level Felony Mandatory Appearance No
  Disposition Date 07/09/2019 Appearance / Due Date
  Warrant Amount Warrant Date
  Case Balance $0.00

  Scheduled Hearings
  No Results.
  Violations
  Violation Offense Correctable Plea Disposition
  288(c)(1) PC Felony N Guilty Pled guilty
  Lewd Act Upon A Child
  261.5(c) PC Felony N Guilty Pled guilty
  Unlawful Sexual Intercourse

  Name Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039799
  Citation Number Violation Date 10/01/2017 Case Status Convicted
  Court Location Ventura Appearance/Due Date Offense Level Felony
  Disposition Date 07/09/2019 Mandatory Appearance No
  Case Balance $0.00

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  05/29/2022 CPO Batch Job - Expired CPO is updated to reflect Terminated.
  08/11/2021 Entry made to delete AB 1950 & DOJ tracking activities.
  05/26/2021 Post Release Offender Termination of PROS Case filed on 05/26/21 . Probation case is closed effective 05/16/21 .
  05/26/2021 JUS 8715A Subsequent Action Disposition Information sent to Department of Justice.
  05/26/2021 Post Release Offender Termination sent to Records to be attached to the file.
  05/26/2021 Case Closed.
  10/20/2020 Collections Case with a previous referral to FTB is now withdrawn. Reason: Case Withdrawn by the Court .
  10/14/2020 Remittance from receipt # 7162637 received in the amount of $190.00 .
  06/03/2020 Post Release Offender Notification form filed on 06/03/20 . Conditions of Release are attached and listed as follows:
  06/03/2020 Post Release Offender Notification sent to Records to be attached to the file.
  05/16/2020 You are scheduled to be released on Post Release Community Supervision effective 05/16/20 . Pursuant to Penal Code Section 3450, you are subject to community supervision provided by a county agency for a period not exceeding three years. Release to county supervision is subject to the following notice and conditions. Should you violate conditions of this release or violate the law, you can be incarcerated in county jail regardless of whether or not new charges are filed. You waive extradition to the State of California from any state or territory of the United States or from the District of Columbia. You will not contest any effort to return to the State of California. If the supervising agency determines, based upon psychiatric reasons, that you pose a danger to yourself or others, the court may, if necessary, order your placement in a community treatment facility for psychiatric treatment. You and your residence and any other property under your control may be searched without a warrant day or night by an agent of the supervising county or any peace officer or law enforcement officer. You may be subject to arrest with or without a warrant by a peace officer employed by the county agency or, at the direction of the supervising county agency, or by any peace officer when there is a probable cause to believe there is a violation of the terms and conditions of release. If another jurisdiction has lodged a detainer against you, you may be released to the custody of that jurisdiction. Should you be released from their custody prior to the expiration of your period of supervision, or should the detainer not be exercised, you are to immediately contact the Probation Department in your county of last legal residence for supervision instructions. The procedure for obtaining a Certificate of Rehabilitation is documented in PC 4852.01 Ï 4852.21.
  05/16/2020 RELEASE, REPORTING, RESIDENCE: Unless other arrangements are approved in writing, you will report to your supervising county agency (hereafter referred to as Ventura County Probation Agency or probation officer) within two working days following your release. You will inform your probation officer of your residence, employment, education, or training. Any change or anticipated changes in residence, employment, education, or training shall be reported to your probation officer in advance. You shall inform your probation officer of new employment within 3 business days of that entry. SUPERVISING COUNTY AGENCY INSTRUCTIONS AND TRAVEL: You shall comply with all instruction of your probation officer. You will not travel more than 50 miles from your residence without prior approval of your probation officer. You will not be absent from your county of residence for a period of more than 48 hours and not leave the State of California without prior written approval of your probation officer. CRIMINAL CONDUCT: You shall not engage in conduct prohibited by law (state, federal, county or municipal). You shall immediately inform your probation officer if you are arrested for a felony or misdemeanor crime or citation. Conduct prohibited by law may result in a revocation by a court to be served in county jail even though a criminal conviction does not occur. WEAPONS: You shall not own, use, have access to, or have under your control: (a) any type of firearm or instrument or device which a reasonable person would believe to be capable of being used as a firearm or any ammunition which could be used in a firearm; (b) any weapon defined in state or federal statutes or listed in California Penal Code Section 16590 or any instrument of device which a reasonable person would believe to be capable of being used as a weapon as defined in Penal Code Section 16590 (c) any knife with a blade longer than two inches except kitchen knives which must be kept in your residence and knives related to your employment which may be used and carried only in connection with your employment; or (d) a crossbow of any kind. FLASH INCARCERATION: You agree to waive any right to a court hearing prior to the imposition of a period of 'flash incarceration' in a county jail of not more than 10 consecutive days for any violation of your postrelease supervision conditions. You agree to participate in rehabilitation programming as recommended by your probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall obey the lawful orders of your probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall maintain a residence with a street address or other dwelling as approved by a probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall maintain regular employment or attend school as approved by a probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall not correspond with inmates or other parolees without written permission from your probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall contact your probation officer within 24 hours of any type of law enforcement contact (traffic stop, identification check, suspect, witness, etc.).
  05/16/2020 You shall consent to a search of person, vehicle, residence, business, or any other personal or real property under the defendant's control at any time by any law enforcement officer or probation officer, with or without a search warrant, warrant of arrest, or reasonable cause, to determine the presence of any of the items prohibited under these terms, or evidence of any of the behaviors prohibited under these terms.
  05/16/2020 You shall not use or possess any narcotics, dangerous drugs, controlled substances, marijuana, or paraphernalia unless prescribed.
  05/16/2020 You shall consent to any tests to determine the presence of controlled substances, including marijuana, at any time by a peace officer or probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall not alter, adulterate, nor attempt in any manner to falsify any bodily fluids submitted for the determination of the presence of controlled substances, including marijuana.
  05/16/2020 You shall not associate with any person who is using or trafficking in any controlled substance, including marijuana.
  05/16/2020 You shall not knowingly engage in any communication using any device over the Internet with anyone who identifies him/herself as a minor or anyone whom you should reasonably believe to be a minor, including 'chat' and 'instant messaging,' texting or another form of communication, unless the probation officer has allowed you to communicate with that minor. This provision does not prohibit the use of electronic mail.
  05/16/2020 You shall not knowingly engage in any communication, with anyone concerning the current or planned possession, production, preparation, publication, exchange, exhibition, or distribution by you or any party to that communication of any matter depicting a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in, or personally simulating, sexual conduct as defined in Penal Code Section 311.4.
  05/16/2020 You shall not provide false information about his/her identity to any provider of an 'electronic communications service' or Internet service provider when purchasing, subscribing to, or agreeing to purchase or subscribe to any service from that provider that allows you to send or receive electronic communications.
  05/16/2020 You shall disclose to your probation officer all electronic mail accounts, chat accounts, telephone accounts or other accounts used to communicate with others over the Internet and shall disclose all passwords and access codes for those accounts and any other Internet account (except for commercial financial accounts) and you shall disclose any other means of access to any computer or computer network to which you have access.
  05/16/2020 If allowed to access the Internet or to communicate with others using a device, by any other probation condition, you shall not permit any other person to use your computer or any other device and you are to advise your probation officer immediately upon learning that someone else has used your computer or other device.
  05/16/2020 You shall not knowingly access social networking sites including, but not limited to Facebook or MySpace over the Internet, even if you are allowed to access the Internet for work, volunteer service or school purposes.
  05/16/2020 You shall notify your employers, schools and volunteer agencies where minors are reasonably likely to be present, of your convictions, to assure that you are not unsupervised where minors are likely to be present, and that you cannot access the Internet or communicate with others in a manner that would violate your release conditions. Any employment, volunteer service, or attendance at an educational institution where minors are likely to be present shall be approved in advance and in writing by your probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall not willingly access or possess any pornography, child erotica or images of children in sexually suggestive poses of any kind. Nor shall you possess or willingly access any stories or audio content relating to children engaged in sexual conduct.
  05/16/2020 You shall not possess software designed to encrypt data or electronic communications except as allowed by the probation officer. You must provide up to date passwords, encryption keys, dongles or other information necessary to access data, to the probation officer, in advance of security measures being installed on your computer or other device. Any encrypted device may be seized by a probation officer or peace officer until it can be fully searched in a forensically safe manner. Encrypting lawful transactions, which do not violate other terms of your release, such as online banking transactions, shall not be a basis for a violation.
  05/16/2020 You hereby consent to a search by a probation officer or peace officer, at any time, with or without a search warrant, warrant of arrest, or reasonable cause, of all computers, devices and storage media you have possession of, or access to, and any and all accounts or sites accessed by you by any such device. You must provide up to date passwords, encryption keys, dongles or other information necessary to access data on the abovementioned items, to the probation officer or a requesting peace officer, except for financial accounts. You consent to the seizure and removal, by a probation officer or peace officer, of any device or storage media capable of storing information that is possessed by you that could reasonably contain evidence of a violation of your release conditions, until it can be fully searched in a forensically safe manner.
  05/16/2020 You shall not use or possess any alcoholic beverage or frequent places where alcohol is the chief item of sale.
  05/16/2020 You shall submit to and complete tests of breath, blood, or urine when requested by a peace officer or probation officer for alcohol.
  05/16/2020 You shall not operate a motor vehicle unless properly licensed and insured.
  05/16/2020 You shall show proof of license and insurance to the probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall notify your probation officer in advance of operating any motor vehicle, giving the make, model, year, color, and license number.
  05/16/2020 You shall register pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code with the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over your place of residence or transient location within five working days upon release from custody, or five working days from the date of sentencing if not in custody. You shall update the registration each year within five days of your birthday.
  05/16/2020 You shall have your updated Penal Code 290 registration verification with you at all times. You must present it during any contact or interaction with any law enforcement officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall not initiate, establish, have, or maintain contact with any minor (male or female) under the age of 18. 'No contact' means exactly that. No contact in any form, whether direct or indirect, personally, by telephone, letter, electronic, computer, or through another person, etc.
  05/16/2020 The defendant shall not associate with children under 18 years of age unless in the presence of a responsible adult, who has been approved by the probation officer, nor reside with any children under 18 years of age without prior approval of the probation officer. You shall obtain permission from the probation officer as it relates to your participation or attendance at any event, location or celebration where children under the age of 18 are either specifically designated for attendance or otherwise likely to be present.
  05/16/2020 You shall immediately inform your probation officer regarding any contact with a minor, whether it is ?accidental? or not.
  05/16/2020 You shall participate in a recognized treatment program designated specifically to deal with sex offenders as approved by the probation officer, which shall include polygraph examinations, and shall participate as extensively and for as long as directed by the probation officer. You shall authorize submission of progress reports to the probation officer upon request. Polygraph questions are limited to those relating to the successful completion of the sex offender treatment program.
  05/16/2020 You shall not date, socialize, or form a romantic interest or sexual relationship with any person who has physical custody of a minor.
  05/16/2020 You shall not form a romantic interest or relationship with a female/male under the age of 18 years.
  05/16/2020 You shall inform all persons with whom you have a significant relationship/association about your criminal history and you will inform your probation officer about the relationship.
  05/16/2020 You shall not associate with any sex offenders except in a treatment program as approved by probation officer.
  05/16/2020 You shall not enter, travel past, or loiter near areas of sexual or pornographic activity such as adult bookstores, massage parlors, topless bars, sex shops, etc.
  05/16/2020 You shall not reside in a residence where minor children also reside.
  05/16/2020 You shall not reside in a residence with any person also required to register pursuant to Penal Code Section 290, unless they are legally related to you by blood, marriage, or adoption. This does not include treatment programs and/or board facilities with the appropriate use permit.
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• 6. Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039660 / Superior Court of California, Ventura County

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  Name Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039660
  Citation Number Violation Date Case Status Discharged
  Arresting / Issuing Agency Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Offense Level Felony Mandatory Appearance No
  Disposition Date Appearance / Due Date
  Warrant Amount Warrant Date
  Case Balance $0.00

  Name Kimball, Neil David Case Number 2018039660
  Citation Number Violation Date Case Status Discharged
  Court Location Appearance/Due Date Offense Level Felony
  Disposition Date Mandatory Appearance No
  Case Balance $0.00

  Docket Date Docket Description
  01/21/2022 Case Closed.

• 7. Detective who raped victim while investigating her case gets 3 years in prison

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  LOS ANGELES —

  A Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective has been sentenced to prison for raping a 15-year-old girl he met while investigating her report of being sexually assaulted.

  Neil Kimball, 46, of Agoura was given three years on Thursday. He pleaded guilty last month to unlawful sexual intercourse and committing a lewd act with a child. The crimes occurred in Ventura County.

  Prosecutors say Kimball befriended the girl in 2017 after she reported being sexually assaulted in neighboring Los Angeles County.

  According to The New York Times, Kimball was originally charged with raping the victim while she was tied or bound. Kimball was also accused of “witness intimidation by threat of force.”

  The girl did not report the encounter. When a different officer took over her case about a year later, her father told the new investigator about the assault, officials said.

  In addition to jail time, Kimball must pay the teenager $50,000 and register as a sex offender.

  KABC-TV says the Sheriff’s Department is reviewing as many as 300 cases that Kimball handled for the Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Bureau to determine whether any misconduct is involved.

• 8. Detective Gets 3 Years For Sexually Assaulting Girl He Was Supposed To Be Helping After She Reported A Rape

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  A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective who was supposed to investigate a sexual assault against a teenager, but instead sexually victimized the young survivor all over again, will be spending the next three years in prison.

  Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura, California pleaded guilty to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse last month, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

  He was sentenced to three years behind bars, which was announced Thursday, August 8, by the district attorney’s office. Kimball was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to pay the victim $50,000 for her pain and suffering.

  The future inmate was detective with the Special Victims Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department when a 15-year-old girl reported being the victim of sexual assault in 2017.

  "While investigating that case, Kimball befriended the victim and sexually assaulted her," the district attorney's office said.

  A colleague who took over some of his criminal investigations learned about the allegation and looked into it, prompting a months-long investigation into Kimball's conduct.

  Kimball was arrested in November 2018 for the incident. At that time, he was relieved of duty with pay, KTLA reports. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that Kimball’s pay was suspended in March and that they are proceeding with firing him, the Los Angeles Times reports.

  The plea deal meant he pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act on a minor. Initially, he was charged with forcible rape of the teen victim.

  Kimball was a 20-year police veteran but he had been eyed for sexual misconduct before. Back in 2009, just a few years before he joined the sex crimes unit, he was accused of sexual battery. However, he was never charged. In that case, he allegedly tried to grab a woman’s hand and make her touch his genitals, all while he was on duty, according to the Los Angeles Times.

• 9. Sheriff's sex crimes detective arrested on suspicion girl in case he was investigating

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  A Los Angeles County sheriff's child sex crimes detective has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in a case he was investigating.

  Neil Kimball was taken into custody Friday evening after a months-long inquiry into the allegations by the sheriff's criminal internal investigation bureau. He was booked on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a victim from testifying.

  The 45-year-old investigator with the special victims unit met the girl during the "scope of his work," a department spokeswoman said Monday.

  Kimball has investigated dozens of child molestation cases in Los Angeles County during the last few years as a member of the elite specialized unit.

  "The investigation and arrest resulted from information provided to the department by a member of the public," the Sheriff's Department said in a statement. It did not announce the arrest Friday and provided the statement after an inquiry by The Times.

  The alleged attack occurred in November 2017 in Ventura County, said Michael Schwartz, Ventura County chief assistant district attorney, whose office has been involved in the case for the last month.

  After sheriff's internal criminal affairs investigators determined that the alleged crime occurred in Ventura County, they reached out to that county’s district attorney’s office to assist them with the case, sheriff’s officials said.

  Kimball was relieved of duty with pay and was booked at the Los Angeles County Inmate Reception Center shortly after 11 p.m. Friday. His bail is set at $2 million.

  Kimball was previously investigated in February 2009, after a woman told the Sheriff’s Department that Kimball grabbed her hand and tried to make her touch his genitals several months earlier, according to a memo from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

  The alleged incident started when the woman and her friends were stopped by Kimball and another deputy in the parking lot of a hotel where the group was staying in August 2008, according to the memo by Deputy Dist. Atty. Deborah Escobar.

  While the group of friends were being questioned by Kimball, some of the women in the group asked to use the bathroom in their hotel room, and Kimball allowed it. The deputy followed them to their room, near where the woman who later complained started filling up a Jacuzzi, according to the memo.

  The woman said Kimball told her and her female friends to get into the hot tub, and some of them complied, wearing their underwear, as Kimball flirted with them, the memo said.

  When Kimball used the bathroom in the group’s hotel room, the complainant went to check on him, and found the deputy exposing himself, according to the memo by Escobar. The woman said Kimball took her hand and placed it on his genitals and grabbed her buttocks, but she pulled away.

  Prosecutors declined to file a charge of sexual battery against Kimball, finding no corroborating evidence of the woman’s complaint. The witnesses in the hotel gave contradictory statements and the complainant failed to cooperate with investigators, wrote Escobar.

  Dan Scott, a retired Sheriff’s Department sergeant in the special victims unit who has investigated hundreds of child sex abuse cases, said of Friday’s arrest: "This is a shock. The unit has never had something like this happen.

  "An investigation like this requires [that] you interview all the prior victims he came into contact with during his time there,” said Scott, who has served as a consultant on federal and county child abuse commissions. "You have to be very careful with the vetting for this unit because they come into contact with vulnerable victims."

  Scott said any prior allegations of sexual misconduct would normally exclude a person from the assignment.

  Times staff writer Matt Hamilton contributed to this report.

• 10. A Girl, 15, Reported a Sexual Assault, Then the Detective Abused Her, Too

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  The investigator, Neil David Kimball, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a teenager he met when she reported a sexual assault to the authorities.

  A Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator accused of raping a teenager after having been assigned to investigate her previous sexual assault allegations has pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison.

  It was at least the third time the detective, Neil David Kimball of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, had been accused of misconduct while on duty, though he was not charged as a result of the first two allegations.

  District Attorney Gregory D. Totten of Ventura County, whose office prosecuted the case, said in a statement that Detective Kimball, 46, met the then-15-year-old victim in 2017 when she reported a sexual assault. He befriended her and then sexually assaulted her, according to the statement.

  Detective Kimball was originally charged with raping the victim while she was tied or bound. Detective Kimball was also accused of “witness intimidation by threat of force.”

  But Patrice Koenig, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, said that prosecutors later determined they could not prove that Detective Kimball had used force during the encounter, which she said took place in his trailer in Camarillo, in southern Ventura County.

  The girl did not report the encounter. Rather, when a different officer took over her case about a year later, her father told the new investigator about the assault, Ms. Koenig said.

  Detective Kimball pleaded guilty last week to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse, and is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison at his next appearance, on Aug. 8. He must also register as a sex offender.

  In a statement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that Detective Kimball’s pay was suspended in March and that it was seeking to terminate him immediately. A lawyer for Detective Kimball declined to comment.

  Detective Kimball’s plea comes just over a month after Sara Abusheikh, a Los Angeles fashion designer, wrote in a post on Medium about her experience with the detective after she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance in 2014, and reported it to the authorities. Detective Kimball was assigned to her case, but she wrote that he never investigated, and instead said wildly inappropriate things to her.

  Ms. Abusheikh wrote that Detective Kimball teased her about going back to her assailant and suggested she “let him make love to you gently.”

  “His only interest in the details of my rape came in the form of perverse, sick questions, and he — most tellingly — suggested he come inside to get high,” she wrote.

  She later filed a restraining order against her assailant, which led Detective Kimball to joke that she was paranoid, she wrote. When she reported his inappropriate behavior to his supervisor, word got back to Detective Kimball immediately, she added.

  The next summer, after getting help from a rape treatment center, she met with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, which declined to prosecute the case, she wrote. A deputy district attorney told her Detective Kimball was “a fine detective” and insisted there was no evidence to back up her claim, she wrote.

  “And the Special Victims Bureau? It only functioned to protect not one, but two, alleged rapists,” Ms. Abusheikh concluded in her essay.

  The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to comment on Ms. Abusheikh’s post.

  Last year, Ms. Abusheikh shared screenshots of text messages she said were from Detective Kimball with The Daily Beast, as well as records of email exchanges with lawyers and patient advocates from the rape treatment center. She did not return calls or respond to messages seeking further comment.

  Detective Kimball, a 20-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, was assigned to the Special Victims Bureau in 2013, The Los Angeles Times reported. The bureau has been involved in high-profile cases, including accusations by a young actor that he was sexually abused by Asia Argento, a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, who had herself accused the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She denied the allegations.

  In 2009, Detective Kimball was investigated for sexual battery but not charged after an episode at a hotel the previous year, The Los Angeles Times reported. According to the report, which was based on a prosecutor’s memo, the detective had questioned a group of friends in a parking lot. Afterward, women in the group and Detective Kimball went to a hotel room, where some of the women stripped down to their underwear and got into a hot tub as he encouraged them, the memo stated. It also said that one woman accused the detective of grabbing her hand and trying to place it on his genitals.

  But no charges were filed. Witnesses gave contradictory statements, there was a lack of evidence and the complainant failed to cooperate with investigators, the memo said.

  Greg Risling, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney, confirmed that the office had declined to prosecute Detective Kimball over the hotel incident. In an email, he said that no other cases involving the detective were under review.

  The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office had also urged any additional victims to come forward, Ms. Koenig said, but none did so.

  Asked last year why Detective Kimball was selected to serve in the Special Victims Bureau even after the 2008 hotel allegations, the sheriff’s department told The Los Angeles Times it would “conduct a review of the internal process” related to the assignment.

  The department did not respond to a question about the outcome of that review.

  Grier Weeks, senior executive at the National Association to Protect Children, a nonprofit in Knoxville, Tenn., that pushes for child protection laws, said that the sentence was too light considering the severity of the crime.

  “There should be more severe penalties for people in positions of authority or trust who assault a child,” he said. “It’s something that has to be treated as the most serious type of assault.”

• 11. Breaking News 15-Year-Old Girl Who Filed Rape Allegation Was Sexually Assaulted By Detective Who Was Supposed To Investigate It

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  Instead of helping a teen victim, Neil Kimball victimized her all over again. He pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

  Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective was supposed to investigate a sexual assault against a teenager, but victimized the young survivor all over again instead.

  Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura, California pleaded guilty to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse last week, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

  Kimball was a detective with the Special Victims Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department when a 15-year-old girl reported being the victim of sexual assault in 2017.

  "While investigating that case, Kimball befriended the victim and sexually assaulted her," the district attorney's office said.

  A colleague who took over some of his criminal investigations learned about the allegation and looked into it, prompting a months-long investigation into Kimball's conduct.

  Kimball was arrested in November 2018 for the incident. At that time, he was relieved of duty with pay, KTLA reports. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that Kimball’s pay was suspended in March and that they are proceeding with firing him, the Los Angeles Times reports.

  He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 8. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison in exchange for taking a plea deal. He will also likely have to register as a sex offender. Initially, he was charged with forcible rape of the teen victim.

  Kimball was a 20-year police veteran but he had been eyed for sexual misconduct before. Back in 2009, just a few years before he joined the sex crimes unit, he was accused of sexual battery. However, he was never charged. In that case, he allegedly tried to grab a woman’s hand and make her touch his genitals, all while he was on duty, according to the Los Angeles Times.

• 12. Judge Approves $5.5 Million Settlement for Teen Sexually Abused by Sheriff's Detective

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  A judge Monday approved a $5.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles County on behalf of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by a former sheriff's detective in 2017.

  Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Neil David Kimball, 47, of Agoura, pleaded guilty last July to child molestation charges. Kimball was sentenced last August by a Ventura County Superior Court judge to three years in prison for crimes committed in that county between October and December 2017, when the girl was 15.

  Kimball handled sexual abuse crimes in his job and had been assigned to investigate the victim's claim that she had been sexually assaulted, authorities said.

  In approving the lawsuit settlement, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yolanda Orozco said she hoped that the money would be used in part to fund a college education for the plaintiff, now 17, and that the payment would be "not just for her to spend."

  The plaintiff sat in the front row with her father, but did not speak.

  A judge's approval of the settlement was needed because the plaintiff is a minor and will not be 18 until November.

  "This a horrifying case about a detective in the sex crimes unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department using his power to rape a minor ... he was assigned to protect,'' according to court papers filed on the girl's behalf.

  During the course of Kimball's investigation, he used his position as a detective to spend time alone with the girl to gain her trust and lure her to his private trailer, where, "acting under the color of law,'' he falsely imprisoned and sexually assaulted her, according to the plaintiff's court papers.

  Kimball, a 20-year department veteran, was arrested in November 2018 after a month-long investigation.

• 13. Teenage girl making sexual abuse claim sexually assaulted by detective dealing with case

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  Neil David Kimball, originally charged with raping 15-year-old victim while she was tied or bound, expected to receive three years in prison

  A Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator accused of raping a teenager after having been assigned to investigate her previous sexual assault allegations has pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison.

  It was at least the third time the detective, Neil David Kimball of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, was accused of misconduct while on duty, though he was not charged as a result of the first two allegations.

  District Attorney Gregory Totten of Ventura County, whose office prosecuted the case, said in a statement that Kimball, 46, met the then-15-year-old victim in 2017 when she reported a sexual assault.

  He befriended her and then sexually assaulted her, according to the statement.

  Kimball was originally charged with raping the victim while she was tied or bound. Kimball was also accused of “witness intimidation by threat of force”.

  But Patrice Koenig, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, said that prosecutors later determined they could not prove that Kimball had used force during the encounter, which she said took place in his trailer in Camarillo, in southern Ventura County.

  The girl did not report the encounter. Rather, when a different officer took over her case about a year later, her father told the new investigator about the assault, Ms Koenig said.

  Kimball pleaded guilty last week to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse, and is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison at his next appearance, on 8 August. He must also register as a sex offender.

  In a statement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that Kimball’s pay was suspended in March and that it was seeking to terminate him immediately. A lawyer for Kimball declined to comment.

  Kimball’s plea comes just more than a month after Sara Abusheikh, a Los Angeles fashion designer, wrote in a post on Medium about her experience with the detective after she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance in 2014, and reported it to the authorities.

  Kimball was assigned to her case, but she wrote that he never investigated, and instead said wildly inappropriate things to her.

  Ms Abusheikh wrote that Kimball teased her about going back to her assailant and suggested she “let him make love to you gently”.

  “His only interest in the details of my rape came in the form of perverse, sick questions, and he – most tellingly – suggested he come inside to get high,” she wrote.

  She later filed a restraining order against her assailant, which led Kimball to joke that she was paranoid, she wrote. When she reported his inappropriate behaviour to his supervisor, word got back to Kimball immediately, she added.

  The next summer, after getting help from a rape treatment centre, she met with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, which declined to prosecute the case, she wrote.

  A deputy district attorney told her Kimball was “a fine detective” and insisted there was no evidence to back up her claim, she wrote.

  “And the Special Victims Bureau? It only functioned to protect not one, but two, alleged rapists,” Ms Abusheikh concluded in her essay.

  The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to comment on Ms Abusheikh’s post.

  Last year, Ms Abusheikh shared screenshots of text messages she said were from Kimball with The Daily Beast, as well as records of email exchanges with lawyers and patient advocates from the rape treatment centre. She did not return calls or respond to messages seeking further comment.

  Kimball, a 20-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, was assigned to the Special Victims Bureau in 2013, The Los Angeles Times reported.

  The bureau has been involved in high-profile cases, including accusations by a young actor that he was sexually abused by Asia Argento, a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, who had herself accused the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She denied the allegations.

  In 2009, Kimball was investigated for sexual battery but not charged after an episode at a hotel the previous year, The Los Angeles Times reported.

  According to the report, which was based on a prosecutor’s memo, the detective had questioned a group of friends in a parking lot.

  Afterward, women in the group and Kimball went to a hotel room, where some of the women stripped down to their underwear and got into a hot tub as he encouraged them, the memo stated.

  It also said that one woman accused the detective of grabbing her hand and trying to place it on his genitals.

  But no charges were filed. Witnesses gave contradictory statements, there was a lack of evidence and the complainant failed to cooperate with investigators, the memo said.

  Greg Risling, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County district attorney, confirmed that the office had declined to prosecute Kimball over the hotel incident. In an email, he said that no other cases involving the detective were under review.

  The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office had also urged any additional victims to come forward, Ms Koenig said, but none did so.

  Asked last year why Kimball was selected to serve in the Special Victims Bureau even after the 2008 hotel allegations, the sheriff’s department told The Los Angeles Times it would “conduct a review of the internal process” related to the assignment.

  The department did not respond to a question about the outcome of that review.

  Grier Weeks, senior executive at the National Association to Protect Children, a non-profit in Knoxville, Tennessee, that pushes for child protection laws, said that the sentence was too light considering the severity of the crime.

  “There should be more severe penalties for people in positions of authority or trust who assault a child,” he said. “It’s something that has to be treated as the most serious type of assault.”

• 14. Los Angeles Sex Crimes Detective Arrested For Allegedly Raping Teen Girl

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  The department put Neil Kimball on paid leave, and he is being held on $2 million bail.

  A deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was arrested last week for allegedly raping a minor last year while he was assigned to the special victims unit.

  The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday that Deputy Neil Kimball, 45, has been charged on one felony count of rape by force and one felony count of preventing or dissuading a witness from testifying. Prosecutors believe he tied up a 14-year-old girl and raped her sometime between October and December of 2017.

  “When allegations of criminal activity involve law enforcement, we have systems in place to root out misconduct within the organization, as well as any Department member who chooses to violate the law and public trust,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

  Kimball appeared in Ventura County Superior Court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. He is being held on $2 million bail, and his arraignment has been set for Dec. 18. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department put him on paid leave.

  If convicted on both felony charges, Kimball could face a maximum sentence of 19 years in prison, according to the county’s senior deputy district attorney, Patrice Koenig.

  She told the Ventura County Star that the District Attorney’s Office will not give Kimball any special treatment because he is a police officer.

  “We treat them the same as any other defendant,” Koenig said.

  Before moving to the sex crimes unit, Kimball was accused in 2009 of grabbing a woman’s hand and trying to make her touch his genitals while he was on duty. The deputy was investigated for sexual battery, according to the Los Angeles Times, but was not charged with any crime.

• 15. LA Sheriff's Detective Arrested For Rape, Witness Tampering

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  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective was arrested last week on charges of sexual assault.

  Neil Kimball, 45, a detective with the LASD Special Victims Bureau, was arrested late Friday night on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a witness or victim from testifying.

  He was taken into custody by the sheriff's department's Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau, according to an LASD statement provided to CBS2.

  Kimball was investigating the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl. According to the sheriff's department, he is accused of raping that same girl whose case he was assigned to investigate. The alleged sexual assault occurred in Ventura County in November 2017, and authorities there are assisting in the investigation, LASD said.

  "The alleged conduct occurred during the scope of the employee's assignment with the Special Victims Bureau," the statement read.

  LASD had been investigating Kimball for about six weeks prior to his arrest. The investigation was prompted by a tip from the public, LASD reports. Kimball had checked himself into a medical facility in August, which is where he was arrested last Friday. Deputies had to get a court order to remove Kimball from the facility and take him into custody.

  Kimball was relieved of duty with pay, according to the sheriff's department. He is a 20-year veteran of the LASD. He has been with the Special Victims Bureau since 2013.

  CBS2 has learned that in February of 2009, Kimball was accused of trying to make a woman touch him against her will during the course of an investigation he was conducting. The L.A. County district attorney's office investigated, but concluded it did not have enough evidence to prosecute him.

  Kimball is currently in a protected cell in the L.A. County men's jail, but was expected to be transported to a Ventura County jail on Wednesday. If Ventura County prosecutors file charges against him, he could make a court appearance next week.

  Kimball was being held on $2 million bail. There was no immediate word on when Kimball might appear in court.