CASH DAMAGES FOR WOMAN DUPED INTO HAVING UNDERCOVER SPY'S CHILD (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, October 25, 2014, 09:31

British police have agreed to pay £425,000 (US$682,000) in damages to a woman who was tricked into having a sexual relationship with one of their undercover agents and raised his child. The officer used his alias to infiltrate activist groups.

The payment comes after a legal battle fought by a number of women who say they were tricked into relationships with officers who were in fact spying on them and their political activities.

Scotland Yard said it “unreservedly apologizes for any pain and suffering,” the BBC reports, while adding that police “never had a policy that officers can use sexual relations for the purposes of policing.”

When the child, a boy, was two years old in 1987, the man disappeared and returned to his original identity, wife, and children.

The woman, known only as Jacqui, said she had received psychiatric care after she discovered the man’s real identity in 2012.

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