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Chicago cop, accused of sex crimes against teenage boys, never been disciplined

Fifteen years ago, Chicago police Officer Eric J. Elkins was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he befriended while moonlighting as a high school security guard - a case for which he was cleared by a judge and never faced any punishment by the police department.

Elkins has continued to have troubles, but he's received no disciplinary action from the department, according to a Chicago Sun-Times investigation that found:

• Three years ago, he was accused of inappropriately touching a teenager during a family reunion near Elkins' boyhood home in rural Michigan. He ended up pleading guilty in 2016 to a lesser charge, avoiding prison and sex-offender registration.

• Elkins completed his sentence - including a year of probation - last year. But the Chicago Police Department says its internal affairs bureau still hasn't finished investigating whether Elkins should be disciplined or fired.

• Now, Elkins is being investigated by his own department over two additional matters: what a police source says is another "sexual related incident," as well as an off-duty fight last month in which one man suffered a broken ankle and another broken cheekbones outside a North Side bar. Records show Elkins left the scene of the fight before responding officers arrived.

Elkins, 44, who is now a sergeant, has been on desk duty since the Michigan incident.

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