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DNA match leads to indictment of former DeKalb officer in 2011 attacks on teens
A DeKalb County grand jury has charged former officer Cameron Livsey in the 2011 sexual assaults of two teenagers. Investigators say DNA collected at the time matched a sample taken from Livsey after his 2026 federal arrest.
A DeKalb County grand jury has indicted Cameron Livsey, a former county police officer, in the 2011 sexual assaults of two teenage girls, District Attorney Sherry Boston announced Oct. 7, 2026.
Livsey, 47, faces charges including rape, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
The assaults happened on Oct. 8, 2011, according to Boston. A 17-year-old girl told police she and a 16-year-old friend were walking through Exchange Park when a man approached from behind, claimed to have a gun and ordered them not to turn around. He took their bags, phones and money, then sexually assaulted them, prosecutors said. The 17-year-old was told to run away.
Police found the younger teen at a Stonecrest apartment complex shortly after 2 a.m. the following day. She told officers the assailant had taken her to a home and raped her at gunpoint.
A sexual-assault examination yielded male DNA. Investigators entered the profile into the national Combined DNA Index System, but it did not initially identify a suspect, Boston said.
The FBI arrested Livsey on April 30, 2026, on a separate federal allegation involving attempts to view sexually explicit images of minors. Agents collected a cheek swab, which prosecutors say matched the DNA evidence from the 2011 case. Livsey resigned from the DeKalb County Police Department earlier this year and remains in federal custody.
DeKalb Police Chief Gregory Padrick called the case disturbing, saying the passage of time does not lessen the department’s responsibility to pursue justice.
If convicted on all counts, Livsey could face life without parole, five additional life sentences and 90 years in prison, Boston said. The district attorney’s office believes there may be other victims and is asking anyone with information to call its tip line at 404-371-2444.