SAN JOSE — A longtime San Jose Police Department officer made his first court appearance Thursday on charges alleging he sexually abused a girl whose mother he met while participating in a county-run parent guidance program over a decade ago.

Saul Duran, who joined SJPD in 2003, was arrested July 7 and charged last month following his own department’s criminal investigation into allegations that he molested two teenage sisters between 2008 and 2010. Prosecutors only filed criminal charges for one of the reported victims because the statute of limitations precluded charges for the other.

Duran, 48, appeared in a San Jose courtroom to answer to five felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor aged 14 or 15, and is on administrative leave from the police department. He remains

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