A Woodburn police officer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexually abusing a girl for a little more than a year.

Daniel A. Kerbs, who has been a Woodburn patrol officer since January 2015, was arrested at the police department and later booked into the Washington County Jail, said Jim Wolf, a Tigard police spokesman. Kerbs is accused second-degree sexual abuse, third-degree sodomy and first-degree online sexual corruption of a child.

The alleged crimes occurred in Tigard between September 2013 and November 2014 and the case had been under investigation for three weeks until Kerbs' arrest, Wolf said. Kerbs knows the girl through her family, Wolf said. He declined further comment on the case citing an ongoing investigation.

Kerbs, 29, was placed on paid administrative leave on Wednesday, said Jason Horton, a City of Woodburn spokesman. Kerbs received an award last November from the Oregon Peace Officers Association for resuscitating a baby in December 2015, Horton said.

Kerbs is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington County Circuit Court on August 8. He was arrested two days after a former Woodburn police detective was sentenced to a year and a half of probation and 40 hours of community service for twice having sex while on duty and using a law enforcement database to benefit a girlfriend.

Timothy Cobos resigned from the Woodburn Police Department last Friday and agreed to give up his law enforcement certifications as part of negotiations with the Marion County District Attorney's Office. He had been certified as an Oregon police officer since 2003 and worked for Woodburn since January 2006, most recently as a K9 detective.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.

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