James Carey, the former Warminster Township police officer, pleaded no contest on Thursday, Oct. 27, to sexually assaulting five teen boys.
Carey, 54, of Cape May Court House in New Jersey, committed the acts while working as a DARE officer and running a program for troubled youth at the township’s recreation center more than two decades ago.
Carey appeared before Bucks County President Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. and entered the open plea to five counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and corruption of minors and two counts each of statutory rape and statutory sexual assault and one count of aggravated indecent assault.
Sentencing was deferred for 30 to 45 days. Judge Bateman also ordered Carey to undergo an evaluation by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification board.
Carey used his position as a uniformed officer assigned to the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program to take advantage of victims who were already facing challenges in their lives, said First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Schorn. Schorn credited detectives and their unrelenting pursuit to locate victims and praised the victims as some of the most courageous men she’s ever met as a prosecutor.
At a preliminary hearing in June 2021, the victims, now in their 30s and 40s, testified about the repeated abuse by Carey. Most of the assaults happened while Carey was in uniform, the victims testified.
Carey was a police officer for Warminster Township from 1989 to 2009, and previously and briefly worked for the North Wales Police Department in Montgomery County (June 1988 to August 1988) and the Warwick Township Police Department (July 1988 to May 1989).
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