A Groveland police officer and a Lake County deputy have been charged in a case involving a Florida Highway Patrol trooper accused of child sexual battery.

  • Cop, Lake deputy charged in child sex abuse case involving trooper
  • Trooper Chad Corriveau is accused of sexually battering girl in 2016
  • Cop is Corriveau's wife; she, deputy accused of failing to report allegations

Alicia Corriveau, a former police officer in Groveland, and Deputy Seth Luppino were both charged in warrants alleging they failed to immediately report suspected abuse. Lake County detectives say Corriveau suspected abuse last year, but then reported the crime to Luppino on Sept. 7, about 7 months after the allegations surfaced.

Luppino then waited 13 days before reporting the suspected abuse, detectives determined.

Corriveau is the wife of Chad Corriveau, the trooper charged with sexual battery. Detectives say he showed pornography to a girl and later sexually battered her sometime between Nov. 25, 2016 and the end of the year.

Authorities say all three of them were good friends outside of work.

"According to Luppino, he was afraid of Chad Corriveau. That was his best friend and he just sat on it," said Lt. John Herrell with the Lake County Sheriff's Office. 

"He indicated that he did not know how to handle a dirty cop, was his words," said Herrell. 

Luppino turned himself in to the Lake County Detention Center on Friday morning, and Alicia Corriveau turned herself in to the South Lake District Office in Clermont, the Lake Sheriff's Office said.

Termination proceedings have begun for Luppino. He's been employed by the sheriff's office since February 2008, and the only disciplinary action on his record is a reprimand over a minor traffic accident, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Check back for updates on this developing story.