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CG officer caught in bedroom of girl, 14

A 36-year-old Coast Guard officer was arrested Aug. 10 after he was caught earlier this month in the Stafford, Va., bedroom of a 14-year-old girl by the girl’s mother.

Lt. Jason Frank, of Gaithersburg, Md., allegedly visited the girl’s home on three different occasions and had sex with her at least twice, according to an Aug. 15 Stafford County Sheriff’s Office announcement.

The girl’s mother allegedly found Frank in her daughter’s bedroom in the early hours of Aug. 1. The mother told deputies that after she informed Frank of her daughter’s age, he jumped out the window of the basement bedroom and ran away.

A sheriff’s office spokesman said Frank met the girl in an Internet chat forum, where he allegedly posed as a 28-year-old.

Frank has been charged with two counts of carnal knowledge of a child, taking indecent liberties with a child, soliciting a juvenile with an electronic device, breaking and entering, vandalism, and misdemeanor assault and battery.

The officer is assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he works in the Command Center, Coast Guard spokeswoman Natalie Granger said Aug. 20.

He previously served on the Coast Guard buoy tender Sundew, homeported in Duluth, Minn.

He is being held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford.