John Scott Moretti charged with child sex abuse. He headed security detail for John Kerry as Secretary of State.

The Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic (WaPo Archived): Former top State Department official arrested on child molestation charges.

J. Scott Moretti, who oversaw diplomatic security training, charged on allegations from 2011 to 2013.

A former deputy assistant secretary of the State Department, who oversaw diplomatic security training until 2018 and previously headed Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s security detail, was arrested Tuesday in Prince William County and charged with molesting a child between 2011 and 2013.

J. Scott Moretti, 58, was the deputy assistant secretary of state for training for the Diplomatic Security Service from 2015 to July 2018, according to his archived State Department biography and his LinkedIn page. He joined the Diplomatic Security Service in 1986 and served in Afghanistan and Iraq while rising up the ranks to deputy assistant secretary of state in 2015.

Prince William County police said they received a complaint in September from a woman who told them she had been sexually assaulted at a residence in the Manassas area sometime between November 2011 and November 2013, when she was between 10 and 11 years old. The woman told police the incidents had happened on more than one occasion. Sgt. Jonathan Perok, a Prince William police spokesman, said the complainant was not a family member of Moretti’s.

The Prince William police special victims unit investigated and then obtained arrest warrants Tuesday for Moretti, who lives in the Manassas area. The warrants charge Moretti with indecent liberties with a minor and forcible sodomy. The Virginia State Police arrested him Tuesday, and he was ordered held without bond. It could not be determined whether a lawyer has been hired or appointed to represent him.

During the period of the alleged assaults, Moretti was stationed in Washington through July 2012 as director of the Office of Mobile Security Deployments, according to his State Department biography. The office is the on-call response force used by the State Department to counter threats against U.S. interests and personnel overseas. He then spent five months in Iraq as the deputy regional security officer for protective operations at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. From January 2013 to April 2015, he headed Kerry’s protective detail.

Moretti’s LinkedIn page indicates he retired in July 2018 from the State Department and provides no further employment history.

U.S.Department of State (via Archive): John Scott Moretti Biography.

Special Agent Scott Moretti was named Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director of Training for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security on July 29, 2015.

Under his direction are the Office of Antiterrorism Assistance, the Office of Training and Performance Standards, and the Office of Mobile Security Deployments. The Training Directorate trains Diplomatic Security special agents throughout their careers, prepares U.S. Government personnel to serve at U.S. diplomatic posts in critical- and high-threat countries, administers antiterrorism training to foreign police, and deploys its own agents for training and special protective missions to primarily high-threat overseas posts.

As head of the Training Directorate, Mr. Moretti directs antiterrorism assistance training and delivery of related equipment to security and law-enforcement personnel in partner nations with the goal of deterring and countering terrorism. He is responsible for the formulation and implementation of training programs and policies that promote the professional development of DS personnel.
Mr. Moretti also oversees specialized security training at U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad, as well as the deployment of security-support personnel to overseas U.S. diplomatic posts during periods of high threat, crisis, or natural disasters.

Prior to his current assignment, he was the special agent in charge of Diplomatic Security’s Washington Field Office. From January 2013 to April 2015, he served as the special agent in charge of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s protective detail. Before heading the Secretary’s protective detail, Mr. Moretti was deputy regional security officer for protective operations at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he led a team of 600 security professionals that provided protection to U.S. Embassy staff.

From May 2010 through July 2012, he was director for the Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD), the on-call response force used by the Department of State to counter threats against official U.S. interests and personnel overseas and to provide specialized security training at U.S. diplomatic posts abroad.

During his first tour in Iraq, Mr. Moretti served as the deputy regional security officer for embassy operations. In this capacity he was responsible for all procedural, technical, and physical security programs at the Embassy. From August 2005 to July 2006, he served as regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

Mr. Moretti holds the rank of Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service and is a recipient of several Department of State honors and awards including the Superior Honor Award and Meritorious Honor Award.

He is a graduate of the National War College, class of 2007. He also attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1983-1986 and was an infantry officer assigned to the First Battalion, Eighth Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

The WaPo story is dated May 7. It's not really amazing how little news is out there on this story. Do your own search and see how little you'll find.

DEMS and their complicit MSM covering up a scandalous pedophile. Oh...alleged pedophile.

If Moretti had worked for a Republican, you'd be reading this news everywhere, including sky-writing over the entire USA.
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ADDED - Diplopundit published a story on May 7, 2020: Ex-Diplomatic Security Deputy Assistant Secretary John Scott Moretti Arrested in Virginia.