Former Los Angeles Sheriff's Department psychologist convicted of sex crimes against children

August 28, 2017

Michael Dane Ward, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department psychologist, was convicted of multiple sexual assaults against one boy and one girl under the age of 10. 

The two children testified against Ward at his trial.  Jurors found him guilty of four counts of lewd acts on a child, two counts of forcible lewd acts on a child under 14, three counts of oral copulation of a child 10 years old or younger and one count of sodomy with a child under 10.

He faces a possible life sentence for the crime.

SOURCE: Maya Lau, "Former L.A. Sheriff's Department psychologist convicted of sex crimes against children under 10," Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug 2017, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-psychologist-convicted-20170825-story.html.