Crime & Safety

Orange County District Attorney: Department Of Homeland Security Employee Charged With Molesting Young Girls

Keegan faces a maximum sentence of 100 years to life if convicted on all counts.

January 28, 2022

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Department of Homeland Security employee was arrested this week on a $1 million warrant after being charged with molesting two young girls, including one as young as eight years old. The man is also accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with a third girl.

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Terry Edward Keegan, 59, of Irvine, has been charged with three felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14, one felony count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, one misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18, and one
misdemeanor count of touching an intimate part of another person.

Keegan was arrested Wednesday by the Irvine Police Department on a $1 million warrant. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Department CJ1 on February 8, 2022.

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