RICHMOND — A retired Oakland police captain was sentenced to jail, probation and a prostitution awareness class after he admitted to buying sex from the young woman at the center of a Bay Area police sex exploitation scandal.

After accepting a no contest plea, a Contra Costa Superior Court judge sentenced Al Perrodin, 81, to two years probation and five days in jail. However, he will be allowed to substitute “court watch” for jail time, meaning he can serve his sentence simply by sitting in a court audience and watching the proceedings.

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The sentence was determined by Judge Joni Hiramoto, after Perrodin entered a no contest plea to a single count of soliciting a prostitute. The defense team did not make a plea deal with prosecutors before Perrodin entered the plea.

Senior deputy district attorney Paul Graves, a Contra Costa prosecutor who reviewed the case, called the judge’s sentence fair.

“Mr. Perrodin took responsibility for his actions, and as a result does not have to put the victim through testifying in yet another case,” Graves said.

He later added, “We take this type of conduct very seriously here in Contra Costa County.”

Perrodin was the only current or former police officer — out of at least eight who were investigated for alleged sexual contact or solicitation (or both) with a young woman who previously used the pseudonym Celeste Guap — who Contra Costa prosecutors moved to charge. Several others face criminal charges in Alameda County.

Last week, former Livermore Officer Daniel Black, 49, pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of engaging in lewd conduct with the same woman under a “deferred judgment” plea deal that calls for his plea to be withdrawn and his record wiped if he’s not arrested in the next 15 months. Otherwise, he’ll serve three years probation.

Perrodin, and dozens of other current and former officers, were investigated after the woman told investigators she’d had sex with officers from numerous Bay Area police agencies, including some who she said gave her inside information about upcoming prostitution stings. Further, she said she’d had sex with officers while she was underage.

The ensuing scandal implicated officers from Oakland, Livermore, Richmond, the Alameda and Contra Costa sheriff’s departments, and other agencies. It has led to still-active lawsuits against Oakland and Richmond. It led to the ouster of three Oakland police chiefs, and to Oakland’s mayor describing the city’s own police force as a “frat house.”

Four Richmond officers implicated in the scandal, out of 11 who were investigated, were recommended to be fired. One has recently returned to the force.

Perrodin was charged after he admitted to paying for sex with the woman when she was 18.