Dozen Oakland police officers who 'slept with a teenage prostitute' are finally facing disciplinary proceedings 

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Oakland police department has started disciplinary action against a dozen officers implicated by a teenage prostitute in a wide-ranging sex scandal.

The 19-year-old woman at the center of the scandal, Jasmine Abuslin, who also goes by the name Celeste Guap, said she has had sex with about 30 law enforcement officials throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last two years. 

She also claimed she had sex with four officers before she turned 18 and sometimes traded sex for protection from arrest or tip offs to planned prostitution stings.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says the city's police department started dismissal proceedings against four officers, but noted some may have previously left the department. 

The department earlier announced that two officers implicated in the scandal previously resigned. A third killed himself last year.

Jasmine Abuslin, the 19-year-old at the center of the Oakland Police Department sex scandal, was arrested for felony aggravated assault while in rehab in Florida on August 29

In addition, seven officers will serve a range of unpaid suspensions before being allowed to return to duty. Another officer will be required to attend training classes.

'I am deeply sorry for the harm this scandal has caused,' Schaaf said.   

Schaaf declined to identify the officers being disciplined. It's unclear if any of the officers were represented by lawyers. The officers' union said previously it wasn't representing most of the implicated officers because the alleged misconduct occurred while they were off duty. 

An investigation into Absulin began after Officer Brendan O'Brien, one of those she allegedly slept with, killed himself

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley has also launched a criminal investigation. Her office didn't respond to requests for comment late Wednesday.

'We are being very sensitive to the young woman who has been exploited and been hurt,' O'Malley said on August 9 when activists arrived unannounced at her office and demanded officers be charged criminally. 'We are working diligently.'

Most of the implicated officers work in Oakland, which has placed three other officers on leave. In June, the department cycled through three chiefs in 10 days after the teen's allegations were first reported in the media. 

Police chief Paul Figueroa stepped down in June after only two days on the job, following predecessor Ben Fairow, who had been fired after just six days.

Fairow himself had been chosen to replace former police chief Sean Whent, who had resigned the week prior. Whent had quit after multiple officer misconduct cases.

Sean Whent (left), Ben Fairow (center) and Paul Figueroa (right) all quit as Oakland Police chiefs in the space of eight days in the wake of the scandal

He said at the time that the investigation into possible sexual misconduct with a minor stemmed from the suicide of an officer.

Officer Brendan O'Brien killed himself just hours after Abuslin started revealing details of the relationships with members of law enforcement on Facebook last September, reports suggest.

Abuslin, whose mother works as a dispatcher at the Oakland Police Department, hasn't named the officers she claims to have slept with.

She claims that only three officers paid her after their encounters, and recalls having up to ten trysts with a single cop.

Absulin's claims are still being investigated and detectives have not ruled out statutory rape charges. 

Six Richmond police officers and several others working for other law enforcement agencies have also been implicated. 

On August 29 Abuslin was arrested at Treasure Coast Recovery Center, a voluntary treatment center in Florida.

Police say the teen, who joined the center on August 26 to be treated for heroin and sex addiction, ran into the street, pulled up her shirt and exposed herself to motorists.

Abuslin, who claims to have had sex with more than 30 officers starting at age 16, allegedly flashed motorists, bit a guard and then tried to solicit sex from police during the incident in Florida on August 29

The teen had been sent to the voluntary rehab facility in Florida by officers in California in order to receive treatment for heroin and sex addiction

After a security officer convinced her to come back inside she was taken to a small room, but quickly became upset, police said.

As more security officers came into the room, sheriff's deputies say Absulin became violent and balled her fists.

When the guards tried to restrain her she lashed out, attempting to flip over a safe before hitting them and biting one on the arm, police say.

Martin County Sheriff's Office was called and Absulin was arrested on a felony charge of aggravated battery.

Staff at the center told police that she has been extremely hostile toward them since arriving three days prior.

Absulin says officers from seven different law enforcement agencies slept with her, some while she was underage, and exchanged nude messages with her (pictured)

After being arrested police say Absulin managed to slip out of regular sized handcuffs and so they had to use a smaller pair.

When she was put into a police car she began hitting her head on the window and then tried to solicit sex, police say

She was later pictured smiling in her police mugshot while wearing a protective police vest.

According to ABC 7, which spoke to Absulin before her treatment, she was told to go to the center by California police who told her to 'treat it like paid vacation.' 

She also claimed that she had been in contact with a Miami pimp who had offered to come and collect her if things did not go well in rehab.