FORT PIERCE — State officials have determined there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that an officer exposed himself to a woman working at the St. Lucie County juvenile detention center in late February.

The officer was placed on paid administrative leave March 3 after a kitchen worker reported to the St. Lucie Regional Juvenile Detention Center staff and Fort Pierce police that the 37-year-old officer exposed himself to her on Feb. 28.

Three days later, the state juvenile justice department’s inspector general office launched an investigation and last month determined there wasn’t enough evident to prove the allegation.

The 34-year-old Port St. Lucie woman told state officials she was mopping up the kitchen floor that Saturday night when the juvenile justice detention officer came in to ask for snacks for the children.

The woman said the officer called her by her nickname three times. She turned to look at him once and he seemed to be fumbling with his pants, she said. The second time she looked, he exposed his genitals, she said.

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FORT PIERCE — A detention officer at the St. Lucie Regional Juvenile Detention Center is on paid suspension after a worker there told police he exposed himself to her over the weekend.

St. Lucie Regional Juvenile Detention Center

Police and the state Department of Juvenile Justice are investigating the claim, and the 37-year-old officer is on paid administrative leave pending the state investigation, police and state officials said.

The 34-year-old Port St. Lucie woman told police she was mopping up the kitchen floor on Saturday night when the juvenile justice detention officer came in to ask for some plastic cups. The woman said she gave the cups to the officer but he didn’t leave. She said she didn’t pay him much attention because she was trying to finish up cleaning, according to a police report.

The officer then called the woman by her nickname several times, the woman said, and she became irritated, glanced at him and realized he was exposing himself.
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