Last August, Scene brought you the tale of Ralph Flynn, a Cuyahoga Falls police officer who was facing criminal charges after he put his 10 and 12 year old daughters in the hospital with bruises and broken arms.
It hadn’t been Flynn’s first run in with the law. A few years earlier, Flynn had been fired from the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department after he had beaten his girlfriend. But Flynn didn’t walk away without a fight. He filed a grievance and won reinstatement in 2005…

This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2008.

7 replies on “Cop Ralph Flynn pleads guilty to assault”

  1. Nobody does win in this case. The ones that lose are Flynn’s children They lose health care and any means of support and all the money wasted on attorney’s could have gone to his children. Sometimes people do take a plea in order to get things over with and do what is best for their children. A lot of innocent people do take a plea to avoid the frustrations of going to trial and to do what is best in the long run. This man is human and just becuase he is a cop doesn’t mean he does not make mistakes. This man I am sure has done a lot of good in his job and unless anyone has done the job of police officer or fireman they do not know what you have to go through and how that job affects you. This so called report has no clue what a cop has to deal with on a daily basis and that stress may have affected Flynn. Flynn had no chance from the beginning once the media got inovolved so he probably di the right thing not to put his family through this. Good luck Flynn I hope you can keep your job because I know that department has turned on you and will stab you in the back.

  2. Hey!! It’s about time, you reported on another department, other then Lorain. That award you gave the PD for best reporting was a joke. Lorain is not the only PD with issues. Look at this cop and Cuyahoga Falls.

  3. I don’t think he’ll be able to carry a weapon with an assault convicition, which would automatically preclude him from performing his duties as a police officer. I think he might be finished as a cop.

  4. After all the talk BS about how his lawyer had damaging evidence that is clear him of all charges, he takes the plea deal at the last minute. Guilty no contest! Thats like saying I did it, but you will never know.
    Then his psycho parents attack his ex-wifes mother on the way out… I can see were he gets it.
    Nice family, nice friends bad mouthing the ex-wife EVERY chance they get.

  5. Denise, Do you really believe what you write because there are many errors in your story. I know you have freedom to print what you want, but if you were in anyway ethical you would not have printed this story. 99.9% of the story is incorrect.

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