Retired Philadelphia police officer Patrick Heron, 52, is facing a number of charges officials say are related to unlawful sexual contact with young girls and ensuing witnesses intimidation, harassments, and stalking of both juveniles and adults.
District Attorney Larry Krasner says the investigation is active and ongoing and investigators believe there may be more victims.A retired Philadelphia police officer has been charged with indecent assault of minors and investigators are urging any other potential victims to come forward.
Heron is also accused witness retaliation, harassment, and stalking of both adults and juveniles related to alleged cover-up efforts. "The conduct alleged includes unlawful sexual contact with minors - some of them quite young – electronic messages that appear to be efforts at grooming young girls or coercion of young girls to meet with this defendant in person, to send him intimate photographs. They include misrepresentations by Heron of himself as a current police officer when he was in fact retired," Krasner added.