New York Daily News

Don’t know that 15-yr.-old

- BY THOMAS TRACY

A BRONX cop accused of having sex with a 15-year-old prostitute refused to admit that he knew his victim — even when he was shown pictures of the two of them in bed together, investigat­ors said Thursday.

In fact, Police Officer Raul Olmeda wouldn’t admit that he was the man having sex with the teen in the raunchy photos — which were found on his computer and cell phone, according to testimony made during his department­al trial.

The NYPD Advocates office, which prosecutes police misconduct, is pushing to get Olmeda fired. The department­al trial will determine whether he will get kicked off the force.

Rape allegation­s for having sex with the minor, identified in court only as SG, will be adjudicate­d in Bronx criminal court at a later date.

Advocate Anna Krutaya said Olmeda, 40, claimed he couldn’t identify the furniture in his own home when confronted with the photos, which were taken in his bedroom and living room. Yet, when cops executed a search warrant at his address, all of the furniture in the photos was there, she said.

Detectives allegedly found a series of salacious videos and photos on Olmeda’s home computer, along with a creepy PowerPoint presentati­on of other women with whom he had sex — a compilatio­n he called “The List.”

Olmeda made his bold denials after he was confronted with an audio file of a recording where he tells the teen to “lay low” because he was being investigat­ed by Internal Affairs. The recording was also found on his computer.

“Technicall­y, you are a minor,” Olmeda told the teen on the recording, according to Krutaya.

“This man, a man who swore an oath to protect the innocent — technicall­y he doesn’t care,” Krutaya said during her summation. “This is a portrait of an individual who shouldn’t be allowed to put on a uniform like the fine men and women of this department.”

Prosecutor­s said Olmeda met SG last year through her 24-year-old sister Alexa, whom he had dated.

After convincing Alexa to have a three-way with himself and SG, he began seeing the minor privately, paying her between $140 and $200 per tryst. He photograph­ed and recorded the encounter, investigat­ors said.

The teen told police of her relationsh­ip with Olmeda after she was arrested for prostituti­on. The 4-year NYPD veteran was suspended after being charged with having sex with a minor and child endangerme­nt charges on Oct. 11. He is currently out on bail. He was re-suspended on Thursday when he refused to testify during his department­al trial. Olmeda (photo) is due back in Bronx Criminal Court on the felony charges May 1.

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