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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I can see
why the mayor was cryptic about the reason for Goff’s removal. This is
very disturbing. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(I didn’t
see that anyone posted this to the list from Tuesday).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Town
Dismisses Official Charged With Sex Abuse<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>By Virgil
Dickson<br>
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
Post Staff Writer<br>
Tuesday, July 17, 2007; B05</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Prince+George's+County?tid=informline">Prince
George's County</a> town of Riverdale Park has fired its public works director,
a 49-year-old man who was arrested early this month on charges of sexually
abusing a 16-year-old female friend of his daughter's.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Town
Council voted last week to remove Larry R. Goff Sr. immediately. "Based on
the charges, the legal proceedings and the discussion with him, a decision was
reached that he would not be able to return to his duties for a substantial amount
of time, and we voted to terminate," Mayor Vernon Archer said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Goff, who
was released on $95,000 bond, could not be reached for comment. The phone at
his home in Edgewater, in <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Anne+Arundel+County?tid=informline">Anne
Arundel County</a>, was not answered in recent days, and court records do not
indicate that he has hired an attorney.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Goff had
held the job in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Riverdale</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, a town of about
7,000 near <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Hyattsville?tid=informline">Hyattsville</a>,
since January. Before that, he was the public works director in <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Bladensburg?tid=informline">Bladensburg</a>,
officials there said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>According
to a charging document filed in court, Goff assaulted the girl while she
visited his daughter on four occasions late last year. He is accused of showing
her computer images of himself naked as well as videos of him having sex with
young girls, the document says.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Other
times, it alleges, Goff sent the girl instant messages telling her he
"missed her" and "loved her" and asking her to send him
naked pictures of herself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>During
one of the visits, it says, he provided her with alcohol and then pulled down
her shirt and bra and photographed her with his cellphone camera. During
another, he exposed himself to her, the document says. He also once offered to
help her get a tattoo or a tongue piercing in exchange for sexual favors, it
says.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In February,
the girl and her mother reported the alleged contacts to social service
workers. Investigators searched Goff's home the next month, confiscating
computers and cellphones. According to court records, they found digital images
of child pornography and graphic sex acts, some of which the girl recognized.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Goff is
charged with more than a dozen offenses, including sexually abusing a minor and
possessing child pornography. The case is scheduled for trial July 31 in Anne
Arundel County District Court.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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