March 02--A district judge has ordered a Pittsburgh police officer charged with trying to coerce women into sexual acts to stand trial on more than a dozen charges including new counts of drug possession filed this morning.
Adam Skweres, 34, of Lincoln Place, said nothing during a nearly three-hour preliminary hearing before District Judge David Sosovicka, who heard testimony from four women who said the officer asked for sex acts in exchange for legal help.
Officer Skweres' defense attorney, Phillip DiLucente, questioned the women's credibility and memory of the incidents, the first of which is alleged to have happened nearly four years ago.
One woman told the judge the officer came to her house in full uniform and tried to rape her. Another said he ordered her to strip if she wanted to help her boyfriend out of jail.
An attorney for one of them, who filed a complaints against the officer in June 2008 after she said he offered to help her in a child custody matter in return for oral sex, said she is working to file a lawsuit against the city claiming it failed to protect her and other women by keeping him on the force.
"Clearly nothing happened because he was allowed to continue," Attorney Jennifer Webster said after the hearing.
Officer Skweres remains on house arrest with electronic monitoring pending his trial.
Sadie Gurman: [email protected] or 412-263-1878.
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