A nearly 15 year old cold case involving the alleged armed abduction and sexual assault of two teenage girls in DeKalb County has produced an indictment against a former police sergeant after DNA collected in a separate federal arrest matched evidence preserved from 2011. Cameron Livsey, 47, was indicted this week by a DeKalb County grand jury on charges that include rape, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping, armed robbery, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, District Attorney Sherry Boston said at a news conference Wednesday.
Authorities say he was a DeKalb County police officer at the time of the alleged attacks. He later rose to the rank of sergeant and resigned in lieu of termination earlier this year after his arrest on unrelated federal charges involving child sexual abuse material. Livsey remains in federal custody. He is presumed innocent of the state charges unless and until proven guilty.
According to Boston, the crimes occurred on the night of October 8, 2011. A 17 year old girl and her 16 year old friend were walking through Exchange Park when a man approached them from behind and warned them not to turn around because he had a gun. Investigators say he took their bags, phones, and money, ordered both girls to undress and lie face down, and sexually assaulted them.
He then ordered the older girl to run away without her clothes and threatened to shoot her if she looked back. Police responded to the park around 10:30 p.m. and entered the younger girl’s name into a national missing person database. Just after 2 a.m. on October 9, officers were called to an apartment complex off Panola Road in Stonecrest, roughly eight miles from the park.
The 16 year old told them the attacker had forced her to dress, put her in a silver Dodge Charger, and ordered her to keep her head down so she could not see the route. She reported hearing a garage door open and close before he took her inside a house, raped her, and forced her to perform oral sex at gunpoint. She said he then made her shower in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence before dropping her off at the apartments.
A sexual assault examination at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston recovered male DNA, which investigators uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System. No match was returned at the time. The case stayed cold for nearly 15 years because the DNA profile had no hit in the national database. That changed after FBI agents arrested Livsey on April 30, 2026, on a federal charge of accessing with intent to view images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Authorities say a cryptocurrency exchange had flagged an account linked to his name and photo that was used to purchase access to such material on the dark web. A cheek swab taken after that arrest was entered into CODIS. In late August, the district attorney’s office learned the profile matched the DNA recovered from the 16 year old in 2011, officials said. Public payroll records list Livsey’s hire date with DeKalb County as February 14, 2005.
He appears in later records as a police officer and, by 2021, as a sergeant. Officials have not described any prior disciplinary actions, lawsuits, or sustained complaints against him during his career in available public reporting. After the federal arrest he was placed on administrative leave. He resigned in lieu of termination earlier this year.
A federal magistrate initially released him on bond over prosecutors’ objections, with conditions that barred electronic devices and pornographic material. That bond was revoked on August 21 after a compliance search found multiple phones, a tablet, storage devices, and pornography in a vehicle glove compartment, along with additional devices in a storage unit, according to U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg. Livsey has remained in federal custody since then.
Hertzberg said federal authorities would accommodate the state case so it can proceed without delay. Boston said a conviction on the full extent of the indictment could bring life without parole plus five additional life sentences and 90 years. Livsey is expected to be arraigned on the DeKalb charges soon. Investigators are reviewing other unsolved sexual assault reports for possible similarities and have said they believe there could be additional victims.
Anyone with information is asked to call 404-371-2444. DeKalb County Police Chief Gregory Padrick called the allegations disturbing and said the passage of time does not diminish what happened or the department’s responsibility to pursue justice. “No badge, no rank, and no position places anyone above the law,” he said.
