30-Year Veteran Cop Charged With Raping Little Boys for at least 20 years

Herbert Dyer, Jr.
3 min readOct 21, 2019
Sgt. Edward Giles. (Photo: Courtesy of Union County Prosecutor’s Office)

The Free Thought Project reports that a 30-year veteran police officer has been arrested and charged with raping boys for at least twenty of those years. Sgt. Edward Giles also served as coach and football director of the East Orange Police Athletic League, which, of course, kept him in constant contact with young boys.

Giles has been charged with sexually assaulting “only” two boys, but his fellow officers suspect that there are “untold numbers” of probable victims who have yet to come forward. He is charged with more than a dozen crimes against the two boys. His soon-to-be-former colleagues are beseeching anyone with knowledge of Giles’ crimes to report that information to the police.

Amazingly, it also turns out that Giles was not only a coach of young boys, but also served as a full-time “community resource officer,” meaning he regularly provided “security” for schools.

Prosecutor Lyndsay Routolo described Giles’ modus operandi:

This defendant took advantage of his position of trust in the community as a means to victimize children…We believe that there are likely additional victims yet to be identified, and we are urging anyone with information to come forward and help bring him to justice.

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Herbert Dyer, Jr.

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