By Peter Berton
PHILADELPHIA – Thanks to a technicality in the Philadelphia Police Department’s employment policy, Philly cop Terra Barrow will keep her day job despite having worked as a phone sex provider for three websites offering potentially obscene fantasies.
The websites — TastyPhoneTreats.com, TastyPhoneSex.com and TastyPhoneKitties.com — are advertised as “100-percent uncensored” and feature stories and chats about topics including pedophilia, rape, incest, kidnapping and snuff
Barrow’s unconventional-for-a-cop sideline came to public attention only recently when someone identifying himself as Michael DiBlasio posted allegations to a website he appears to have established solely for the purpose of outing Barrow. Barrow described DiBlasio, reportedly of Bronx, New York, as an irate ex-boyfriend with an ax to grind. The website accused Barrow not only of providing phone sex to “clients around the country,” but also of arranging “dates” for fellow police officers.
With legal help, Barrow had the site removed from the web, only to see it spring up again on Blogger, where it remains live, making the same accusations and providing her home address, telephone numbers and email.
“He has mental issues; he’s psychotic,” Barrow told the Philadelphia Daily News. “I don’t want to rock that boat . . . [and] I’m not going to keep paying [a lawyer] over and over again to have it removed.”
She said she quit the phone sex business in 2011 because she feared her sideline would endanger her day job with the police department. Shortly thereafter, the accusatory website surfaced and the Philadelphia Police Board of Inquiry reviewed the situation.
“They found her not guilty on a technicality, because [phone sex work] was not specifically enumerated as prohibited outside employment,” Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told the Daily News for a story the paper broke Tuesday.
Ramsey also said he wants phone sex added to Directive 121, the Philly PD’s outside employment policy.
“It may not be illegal, but it doesn’t look good at all for the department,” he told the newspaper. “There are certain types of jobs that are just inappropriate for a police officer.”
Barrow refuses to apologize for running a phone sex business.
“It’s a 100-percent legal business,” she told the Daily News. “It didn’t impede me from doing my duties. I never portrayed an officer. My real name was never revealed when I conducted my business.”
During the intervening years, Barrow found a new sideline to boost her police pay of $65,567 annually. With the department’s approval, she now sells fitness products, including botanicals and a fat-firming body wrap, through a personal website.
[SIZE=1]Image: Terra Barrow, from a handout provided to the media.[/SIZE]
