Clark County judge granted a continuance in the child rape
case against a Beaverton police officer this week, according to court staff.
Christopher Ramoan Warren, 33, is accused in Clark County
Superior Court of raping a 5-year-old and charged in Washington County Circuit
Court with defrauding the State of Oregon.
Warren, who was working as a desk officer, was placed on
paid administrative leave in April, when he was arrested in Washington County
on accusations that included food stamp fraud, theft of at least $1,000 from
the state of Oregon. He was arrested at his Vancouver home in May on
accusations of sexually abusing a young girl.
Warren joined the Beaverton Police Department in 2004 after
spending two years as a reserve officer. He was placed on paid leave in
September 2009 when the Multnomah County district attorney's office
investigated claims he inappropriately touched a girl when he was 17, the
agency said. The case was dropped in April 2010.
He was placed on paid leave again one month later, the
police department said. At the time, investigators were looking into
allegations that he failed to report suspected child abuse involving one of his
childhood friends, according to a memo from Multnomah County prosecutors. The
friend was later convicted of sex abuse.