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NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana denied the New Orleans Police Department’s motion for summary judgment on its argument that it could not have known the officer it hired, who is now in prison, would sexually assault a child. The department was aware that he had five arrests on his criminal record, which qualifies him as a “habitual offender” under the department’s own rules.
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