“Four … were pedophiles. One … was [for] theft. One … was a drug dealer. I think I paid my dues trying to seek out dirty cops.” · Burkhardt pleaded the fifth when Schubert asked him a series of questions about each of those aspects from Weicks’ testimony. ... The first time Burkhardt was sent to prison was in 1987, for mailing sexual abuse imagery depicting juveniles to undercover agents despite a career investigating child abuse cases.

Windmann says the abuse began in the 1970s while Burkhardt was investigating separate allegations involving Windmann. “He pimped me out to other pedophiles and took pornographic pictures, which were distributed,” Windmann said.

The investigation also revealed Burkhardt added 117 pictures of young boys to his favorites list under an email account and a user name that he did not register with authorities under part of his sex offender status.

Burkhardt has been diagnosed with pedophilia, released from prison and treatment a half-dozen times since 1992 and has never managed to complete the terms of his probation. According to court records, he used his position as a leading NOPD child ...

NEW ORLEANS — A former child sex crimes detective who admitted to molesting children during his New Orleans policing career, has been in and out of prison for images depicting the sexual abuse of minors, and has been investigated in connection with a series of killings, has gotten another opportunity at relative freedom. After a parole violation caused him to spend the last few years in intensive therapy at a federal prison in North Carolina for people who, like him, that have been deemed sexually dangerous, Stanley Burkhardt was recently transferred to a halfway house, according to records reviewed on Thursday by the Guardian.