Former Planned Parenthood executive commits suicide after child pornography raid

Tim Yergeau, a former Planned Parenthood executive from Connecticut, committed suicide last week, days after police conducted a failed raid against him in an operation targeting child pornography.

Yergeau, 36, was director of strategic communications for the southern New England affiliate of the abortion organization. He died after officers mistakenly conducted a raid at his neighbor's home in New Heaven. Yergeau, alerted by the police action, ended up taking his own life. As police officials revealed in statements reported by the New Haven Register, it was in fact Yergeau who was the target of that criminal investigation.

According to The Register Citizen, a video released Monday shows police officers forcing open the door of the wrong apartment while executing a search warrant in connection with an investigation into child sexual abuse material. New Haven police officers broke into a woman's apartment and handcuffed her around 6 a.m. on April 6. Then they realized it was not the home of Tim Yergeau, the subject of the investigation who ultimately committed suicide five days later. The reason for this police error is still under investigation.

As for Yergeau, investigators believe he had been exchanging child sex abuse videos with users in the Middle East when a state judge authorized a raid on his apartment this month, according to a search warrant affidavit picked up by local media.