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Ex-NOPD child abuse detective, himself a serial molester, confronted by WWL, Guardian

Stanley Burkhardt had just been released from a halfway house after his sixth prison stint in a span of 37 years.

David Hammer / WWL Louisiana Investigator

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Published: 5:18 PM CDT August 26, 2024
Updated: 9:53 AM CDT August 27, 2024

A former New Orleans police detective – who once busted the city’s pedophiles and then sexually abused their child victims – answered the door Friday at his half of a shotgun double in the Lower Ninth Ward.

Stanley Carl Burkhardt had just been released from a halfway house after his sixth prison stint in a span of 37 years. He wore a white T-shirt and an ankle monitor as this reporter stood on the other side of a screen door, with a WWL Louisiana microphone in his hand and Guardian reporter Ramon Antonio Vargas by his side.

No sooner did this reporter identify himself than Burkhardt exclaimed, “Oh no,” and quickly shut the door. He wouldn’t emerge again.

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