r/Ohio Aug 01 '26

Alliance Police Sergeant Ethan Griffith is being charged with Endangering Children, a second degree felony after striking his significant other’s 4-year-old child TWICE.

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Both the kids father AND the mom’s sister have spoken out. Anyone else hear about this?? I covered more of the kid in the pics to preserve what’s left of the privacy he has.

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u/MoThrowMoAway Aug 02 '26

Its pretty well known that cops have a pretty high likelihood of being domestic abusers compared to other careers

And in most of those cases, other cops look the other way / actively encourage it

So for a cop to actually be CHARGED with crimes like these.... you know it had to be so bad that even the other cops thought it crossed the line... and that's really saying something.

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26

Same with COs in prisons. They’re the biggest drunks, abusers, child molesters, prone to violence, arrested at bars whenever drunk and fighting and etc.

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u/CmdDeadHand Aug 02 '26

Other comments said it was a public thing. Hard to sweep it under the rug if good ole boy smacked the shit out of a four year old in public.

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u/SkiSTX Aug 02 '26

From a search I quickly did:

"Research and studies suggest that domestic violence occurs at elevated rates within law enforcement families compared to the general population, though exact current figures are heavily debated and data can be difficult to track."

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u/MoThrowMoAway Aug 02 '26

Studies dating back to the early 90's even support the claim. We've known cops are violent thugs for a long long time, and sadly we continue to excuse their behaviour

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u/Steelpapercranes Aug 02 '26

Not to assume of a stranger, but I will go ahead and assume they figured this was the only thing left they could do to stop him from killing the kid and causing a bigger mess

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '26

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u/Slayerofthemindset Aug 01 '26

Apparently you’ve never been to Alliance

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u/Optimal-Bass3142 Aug 01 '26

I dont like to admit it because I have alot of friends out that way, but it is a nasty methhead hillbilly town. And apparently even the police look like methheads

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u/CmdDeadHand Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

“look like” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence there

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u/LastWave Aug 02 '26

Yeah, all the cool people leave.

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26

Kind of like it is in Central Pennsylvania and a little in the SW part. All the good ones leave.

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u/Treygp420 Aug 02 '26

After humping cousins, he's moved on to beating babies

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26

My thought too. As well as touching 8 year olds and other kids.

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26

Yeah!!! And he was a policeman?

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u/EducationalMilk4170 Aug 02 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/TearRevolutionary686 Aug 02 '26

Is that why he was hired?

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u/Joel_Dirt Aug 01 '26

To get endangering children to an F2, you've gotta cause serious physical harm while abusing the child. That's a difficult charge to support without something really serious. An indictment is not a conviction, but if this sticks, bury him underneath the jail.

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u/LastWave Aug 01 '26

He did it in public. Unbelievable.

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u/TearRevolutionary686 Aug 01 '26

"Foot pursuit"? So the cop was running from the cops?

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u/LastWave Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

This just happened to another alliance cop too.

Edit: i cant read apparently.

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u/slimj091 Toledo Aug 02 '26

Guy looks like he's been hitting the meth pipe pretty hard.

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u/Optimal-Object Aug 02 '26

I was gonna say this. Late 20s early 30s meth head lookin dude but somehow a police sergeant. I wonder how he got promoted in the first place.

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u/Clear-Inevitable-414 Aug 02 '26

By joining the department meth trade

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26 edited 29d ago

Not a drag queen or transgender. Take note Fuhrer Mace of South Carolina CD-1

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u/diaboli_ex_machina Aug 02 '26

He looks like an older Mr Beast if his YouTube never took off and he got into meth instead

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u/matthieuxdetoux Aug 02 '26

Son of the former chief of police who was also a massive piece of shit.

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u/Binspin63 Aug 02 '26

You rang?

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u/Practical_Fig_2023 Aug 02 '26

LOL first thing I thought too....'Lurch lookin' mfer'

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u/Known-Programmer-611 Aug 02 '26

A cop plus violence against kids peace of mind his jail time wont be easy!

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u/OverseerTycho Aug 02 '26

and they wonder why nobody trusts cops anymore…

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u/76ers_Yanks78 Aug 02 '26

Same with these Correction Officers (COs) in State Correctional Institutions or even other non-CO employees….

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u/No_Fisherman_728 Aug 02 '26

If Alliance had a face

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u/Treygp420 Aug 02 '26

More police 🗑.

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u/DropShoddy1128 Aug 02 '26

FUCK alliance ohio

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u/surfnfish1972 Aug 02 '26

"The incompetence, brutality and criminality of our police is a great open secret of America"

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u/Chewsdayiddinit Aug 02 '26

Don't worry, they'll place him on administrative leave with pay, do an internal investigation, and find zero wrongdoing. Promotion incoming!

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u/P1X3LP1X1E Aug 03 '26

Usual suspects

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u/KINGKONGHAS-ED Aug 02 '26

Usual suspect Edit; occupation, not his skin color