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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Court documents are providing more details on the arrest of a 31-year-old man who is accused of sexual misconduct involving minors.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Per investigators, Joseph Alfred Galati was arrested on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n While court documents did not list a workplace for Galati, officials with the City of Phoenix said Galati worked as a Human Resource Officer for the city.<\/p>\n The investigation into Galati began in late April, when a 13-year-old boy who was being interviewed for an unrelated matter revealed an incident that allegedly involved Galati.<\/p>\n Court documents contained graphic description of what allegedly happened, but according to the boy, he and a 12-year-old, identified only as “Victim B,” had a sleepover, and Victim B asked the 13-year-old if he could come with him to meet with someone that Victim B met on Snapchat.<\/p>\n “They went outside and a guy picked them up in a truck,” read a portion of the court documents. Sexual conduct allegedly happened after that.<\/p>\n Police said they later interviewed Victim B, who said he eventually asked if they could leave, and the 13-year-old said yes. The man then told the suspect that he would harm them if they told anyone.<\/p>\n Investigators say the 13-year-old’s mother confirmed that her son spent the night at Victim B’s house from April 12 to April 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to court documents, the incident involving the 13-year-old and Victim B was captured on video. The videos were found on the 13-year-old’s phone. Investigators later managed to track down the suspect’s vehicle, and discovered it was registered to Galati.<\/p>\n Galati, according to investigators, was identified by the 13-year-old in a photographic lineup.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Investigators said in an interview that was done after Galati was read his Miranda<\/strong><\/a> rights, Galati said he met a male on an LGBT dating app, and that he met the male, along with a friend of the male, in person.<\/p>\n Galati, per court documents, also said he engaged in sexual conduct with one of the males, but denied knowing that either of the two were underage.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Galati, according to court documents, is accused of two counts of sexual conduct with a minor, and two counts of public sexual indecency. Both are felonies.<\/p>\n A judge has set a cash-only $150,000 bond for Galati. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 2.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Tolleson<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHOENIX – Court documents are providing more details on the arrest of a 31-year-old man who is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,56474,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-178230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-tolleson","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097622492122518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}