Convicted child molester and former Air Force investigator David Alan Schwartz once served as a personal bodyguard for top Department of Defense (DOD) officials.
Last Monday, Schwartz was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for object sexual penetration of an 11-year-old girl in 2015, which is a felony-level offense in Virginia.
The background to the incident is that on Oct. 30, 2015, Schwartz was invited over to his friend’s house for a bonfire. He knew her from high school and was reasonably close with the rest of her family. Schwartz told his friend, the mother of his victim, that he had had too much to drink and asked if he could spend the night. She agreed to the request, at which point her 11-year-old daughter showed Schwartz to the room where he’d be staying.
Then, Schwartz climbed into the girl’s bed and fondled her genitals and chest. He instructed the child not to tell anyone about what he did to her, as it was their “secret snuggle time.”
But the girl her mother about a month later when she panicked at the prospect of being at another event with Schwartz.
During Schwartz’s time in the military, he served as a protective service agent for the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), and was assigned to a squadron tasked with providing security services for top DOD officials. The Air Force was quick to distance itself in any way possible from his actions.
“Mr. Swartz served as an OSI protective service agent in the PSO squadron for approximately 3 years,” Linda J. Card, chief of public affairs for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “When this crime occurred, he had already rotated out of the OSI protective service squadron. This crime did not occur while Mr. Swartz was assigned as a PSO, nor was there any indication during the investigation that any other crime was committed by this individual while a member of the Air Force.”
Once the OSI commander was alerted of the allegation against Schwartz, he opened an investigation and removed Schwartz from agent status. The investigation did not turn up any further victims.
“OSI remains committed to protecting the integrity of the United States Air Force, which sometimes includes looking internally into our own organization…no one is above the law, particularly those entrusted to enforce it,” Card told TheDCNF.
The Air Force declined to answer the identities of the senior DOD dignitaries Schwartz was tasked with protecting, citing security concerns.
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