CA. David Muhammad An Alameda County Juvenile Probation Officer is accused of sexual assault

David Muhammad has a checkered past in Juvenile Justice where NY and CA Juvenile Justice Departments are picking up DC and Maryland Juvenile Justice rejects in what amounts to a revolving door of incompetent administrators.

Here’s the past story:

In 2010 DC Mayor Adrian Fenty fired the head of the DC’s juvenile rehabilitation agency under mounting political pressure to make changes to a system that has seen five of its wards murdered and nine others arrested on murder charges this year.

Deputy director David Brown and head of internment David Muhammad resignedwhile Vincent Schiraldi, left to run New York City’s probation agency.

It was while Schiraldi, Brown and Muhammad were at the helm of DC’s juvenile justice department that, at least nine DYRS wards who had escaped from custody have been accused of murder and another five slain themselves.

Based on this track record, Alameda County Juvenile Probation apparently thought it would be a good idea to hire Mr. Muhammad.

Mr. Muhammad is now on paid leave (even though CA is broke) after being accused of sexually assaulting and harassing a female probation officer in a $1.5 million dollar claim.

The Board Members stated that they could not comment while Muhammad is on leave because it is a confidential personnel matter.

While the article mentions that Muhammad, 38, was hired a year ago after holding top probation positions in New York City and Washington, D.C., the article neglects to mention that Muhammad was hired in CA after he and Schiraldi had to high tail it out of DC after 14 of its youths either committed murder or were murdered themselves.

In her claim, the deputy probation officer alleges that Muhammad harassed her at a probation office in Hayward on May 15 when he noticed a discoloration on her neck, made multiple comments about it, laughed and joked about it and called it a “hickey.”

The officer said Muhammad put his hands on her twice that day, prompting her to exclaim to another deputy, “Did you see that? He grabbed me!”

The deputy alleges that four days later, the morning of May 19, Muhammad asked her to pick him up at Oakland International Airport and drive him to a speaking engagement in Oakland but then instructed her to take him to the San Leandro Marina, which was empty at that time of day.

She said Muhammad suddenly grabbed her head and started kissing her, telling her, “We would make some pretty babies.”

The officer said when she tried to pull back, Muhammad “became very aggressive” and pulled her shirt down, cupped her breast and started to kiss it and penetrated her vagina “forcefully” with two of his fingers.

She said that when she eventually pushed him away, he told her she had excited him sexually and said, “I want you so bad, you just don’t know it.”

The deputy said that a day later, on May 20, Muhammad sent her multiple text messages and that she reluctantly agreed to meet with him as long as they weren’t alone because she was worried about her job and what he might do to her if she ignored him.

She said in the claim that she met with Muhammad and his brother at a restaurant in Hayward and that at the end of the night he started to kiss her and grab her breasts and put his hand between her legs.

The deputy said she pushed his hand away but that he then grabbed her hand, placed it on his groin area and said she had excited him sexually.

The California Attorney General’s Office is conducting an investigation to see if criminal charges should be filed against Muhammad, according to attorney general’s spokeswoman Lynda Gledhill.

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