ABC13 learned a veteran Pasadena police officer, who took his own life in a church parking lot, found out he was under investigation for invasive visual recording that same morning.

According to Pearland police, someone filed a complaint against 46-year-old Kerry Heiserman on Jan. 6.

Heiserman was an officer with the Pasadena Police Department for 21 years. The reason Pearland police were investigating is because the accusation occurred in their jurisdiction.

The case was assigned to an investigator on Monday, and just hours after the investigator tried to contact Heiserman, he died by suicide, according to police.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    696 months ago

    Under the Texas Penal Code, invasive visual recording is a state felony and applies when someone is accused of photographing or videotaping someone’s intimate area without consent, videotaping in a bathroom or changing room, or receiving sexually explicit videos or pictures and forwarding it to another person.

    • ivanafterall
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      506 months ago

      Oh, now Texas has a problem with invading people’s intimate areas!? I can’t keep up.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        It’s consistent in their minds. Their innocent virgin daughters need to be protected, but the filthy whores who made them commit adultery need to be punished.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        Probably, but not necessarily in the way you’d think.

        […] or receiving sexually explicit videos or pictures and forwarding it to another person.

        Apparently a lot of the NSFL/shock images online come from cops sharing photos from the crime scene/autopsy reports/other visual evidence among each other. My guess is he was caught sharing pictures of abuse victims or something along those lines, if he thought it was bad enough it wouldn’t just be swept under the rug.