Kentucky Trooper wants his job back after having sex with a 15-year-old

Public Servants Must Be Held To A Higher Standard

BRECKENRIDGE COUNTY, KY–Former Kentucky state trooper Jerry Clanton says his “relationship” with a 15-year-old girl should not have led to his termination, and he pleaded with a trial board last month for his job back, calling the whole situation a “moral mistake.”

Despite the fact that he was a married man, and a law enforcement officer, he admitted to having sex with the minor on at least four separate occasions. In one incident he admitted to having sex on the trunk of his police cruiser on the side of the road, while he was in uniform and on duty. However, he asserted that he never would have done so if he knew her true age.

In a transcript from the Kentucky State Police Trial board, Clanton said, “I recognize that it is an embarrassment to the State Police. But I have not compromised myself in the fact that, in my mind, all I was doing was making a moral mistake. I would never have gone over there. I would have never spoken to her, never texted her, never anything had I thought she was anything but 18.”

Matt Feltner, the KSP Commander of Legal Services Captain, completely disagreed with Clanton’s dismissive attitude of the affair. “You can’t put a 15-year-old girl in a car, drive her up in the middle of nowhere and have sex with her,” Feltner said. “I mean that doesn’t have to be written out somewhere to know it’s completely wrong and outside the lines.”

Clanton was apparently not the only officer engaging in inappropriate conduct with the young girl. Canton states another State Trooper, Stratford Young, had sex with the girl first. Both were fired as a result of their actions. Investigators believe that a Brandenburg officer and a Breckinridge County Sheriff’s deputy also had sex with the girl.

Although this is clearly a case of statutory rape, a crime punishable with jail time, none of the four men suspected have faced any consequences other than the two who were dismissed. The girl told WDRB she is angry no one is in jail, and her father is calling on prosecutors to take action, but a grand jury has yet to formally charge anyone involved.




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