APD
officer resigns after Omaree case
ALBUQUERQUE
(KRQE) – The APD officer suspended for what she didn’t do in the Omaree Varela
case has now quit.
Jennifer Jara served a weeklong suspension last month then
resigned Friday.
She went to Omaree’s school in late 2012 after the 9-year-old
boy told a teacher his mom had beaten him. Jara’s report said she didn’t feel
Omaree was safe with his mom but that he had changed his story because she was
there too. Jara didn’t arrest her for child abuse, didn’t take the boy away and
didn’t follow up.His mother allegedly kicked him to death last December.