The cheating Maryland cop who was caught climbing into his cruiser with his scantily-clad girlfriend was previously suspended from duty after he was accused of hitting his stepson until he was ‘unconscious and foaming at the mouth,’ DailyMail.com can reveal.
The father of the boy, who was three at the time, has revealed exclusively to DailyMail.com that disgraced Prince George’s County Police Corporal Francesco Marlett attacked the boy a second time – choking him during an asthma attack last year.
Images of Marlett, 34, went viral last week after he was caught on camera making out with his mistress before they both climbed into the back of his police cruiser in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
He has been suspended pending an internal investigation into his conduct, but that isn’t enough, said Lamarr Mackall, who is the father of Marlett’s stepson.
Mackall shares the boy with Paula Jones – who went on to marry the disgraced cop and have three children with him.
‘He shouldn’t be a cop,’ Mackall, 29, told DailyMail.com, who claimed that as a white man, Marlett gets protection within the force.
‘It has a lot to do with his skin color because Prince George’s County is very famous for having police officers terminated – especially African American police officers.’
DailyMail.com can reveal that Officer Francesco Marlett (left) was accused of hitting his stepson until he was ‘unconscious and foaming at the mouth’. The boy’s father Lamarr Mackall spoke to DailyMail.com
‘He shouldn’t be a cop,’ the boy’s father Lamarr Mackall, 29, told DailyMail.com, who claimed that as a white man, Marlett gets protection within the force
Mackall and Paula Jones – Marlett’s wife – dated for several years throughout high school but broke up shortly before their son was born in 2012
Court files obtained by DailyMail.com confirm that Marlett was accused a second time of assaulting the boy in December 2022, with Lamarr filing a second protection order over the incident.
‘My son was having an asthma attack in the night, and Marlett went to give him his inhaler,’ said Mackall. ‘My son told him that it was empty and wouldn’t work.
‘He told him to still use it, so my son went to do so, and said again that it wasn’t working. Marlett then took the inhaler from him and threw it across the room and choked him while he was having an asthma attack.’
Mackall claimed that the cop and the boy’s mother have been verbally abusive
Mackall also claimed that the cop and the boy’s mother have been verbally abusive towards the boy. ‘They call him names – moron, idiot, retard,’ he claimed.
He has now set up a GoFundMe page in a bid to raise money to fund his legal bills in order to ‘protect his son’ from Marlett.
‘It’s been going on for so long, so I had to represent myself which has been hard when Marlett has a lawyer.’
Court records show an initial protection order was granted for a year in 2019, when Lamarr discovered that Marlett had been charged with child abuse in 2016.
Mackall now has primary custody of his son, who spends every other weekend with his mother.
He and Jones dated for several years throughout high school but broke up shortly before their son was born in 2012.
He first met Paula’s now-husband in December 2015 at a celebration for the boy’s third birthday.
Just eight days later, he discovered the officer allegedly ‘spanked’ the child so hard he hit his head on the wall and fell unconscious and then began foaming at the mouth.
Marlett performed CPR on the boy, with colleagues from Prince George’s County Police Department arriving on the scene and ruling the injury an accident.
But the incident was later reviewed and Marlett was charged with child abuse. The charge was later dropped and expunged from his record.
In original viral clip, Marlett and his mistress Virginia Pinto are seen in a passionate embrace and making out in front of his cruiser, which was parked near Oxon Hill High School, close to the Virginia border
The cop was seen getting into the back of the cruiser himself before they emerged 40 minutes later according to witnesses
Speaking to DailyMail.com Lamarr said that he was horrified to have only been informed of that incident in 2019. He said Child Protection Services never contacted him over the alleged assault.
‘I never knew what happened, and around that time his mom stopped me from seeing him with no real explanation, he said.
‘As my son got older she began to allow him to come see me. He would complain to me about the things that Marlett was doing to him.
‘He was five or six at the time and I confronted her. But every time it went nowhere. So as a concerned father I reached out to Marlett myself and that is when I found out about the charges.’
Mackall believes that Marlett’s colleagues ‘covered for him’ in the 2015 incident because he worked with them.
‘Marlett’s a Caucasian police officer, he doesn’t get the same treatment that other officers get.
‘I believe that he was trying to discipline my son in a very monstrous way and not discipline him in the correct way.
‘It’s unfortunate that my son had to experience that and it’s a lot to process still. Because I know exactly what happened to my son that night and still to this day, you know, my son still complains about him.’
Court documents seen by DailyMail.com state that Marlett was not supposed to be left alone with the child, but Mackall claims the couple regularly broke that rule.
‘I was willing to talk to him because he’s going to be around my son. I was willing to even become his friend,’ Mackall said of Marlett.
‘He has also been to pick up my son alone without Paula being present. He has dropped my son off at my sister’s house and picked my son up from my sister’s house without Paula being present.’
Mackall claims that Marlett even tried to hit on his sister, who had to warn him to stop messaging her ‘before Paula kills you!’
When he told Paula her husband had tried to pick up his sister, she replied: ‘I figured, his cheating a**’.
‘Me hearing ‘his cheating a**’, I didn’t put too much on it but now it all makes more sense.
Mackall revealed that Marlett tried to hit on his sister, who had to warn him to stop messaging her ‘before Paula kills you!’
In a scathing post Paula (left) accused Pinto (right) of being ‘passed around’ the county, in the latest attack on her husband’s mistress for previously claiming that he had been ‘cheating on her for years’
‘Marlett’s a Caucasian police officer, he doesn’t get the same treatment that other officers get,’ Mackell said. DailyMail.com spotted Marlett in a robe outside of his Maryland home
Paula – who said she and her husband are dealing with the situation ‘discreetly’ – has previously taken aim at his mistress Virginia Pinto in a scathing social media post and has now offered to meet her in person to discuss the situation and ‘hash it out like adults.’
Neither Francesco nor Paula Marlett responded to requests for comment by DailyMail.com, despite several fiery statements posted online.
DailyMail.com spotted Marlett’s mistress Virginia Pinto. Paula said that she and her husband are ‘dealing with the situation discreetly’ but wants to meet with her husband’s mistress to ‘hash it out’
In a scathing post Paula accused Pinto of being ‘passed around’ the county, in the latest attack on her husband’s mistress for previously claiming that he had been ‘cheating on her for years’.
Paula said: ‘I won’t stand by and allow someone who’s been passed around PG County to speak on my name,’ she said.
‘Y’all expect me to stay silent while this Loose Pu**y Fish Box speaks on my name. It’ll be a cold day in hell.
‘I’m patient, understanding and God Fearing but don’t be the one to f*** around and find out. I love people wholeheartedly until you lie on me.
‘Don’t fix your DSL’s to speak on my name Virginia and if you do speak facts which you don’t know bc you’ve never met me you Coward.
‘So I’ll offer you this, meet me and we can hash this out like adults. Wassup.’
It is not clear if Pinto intends to take her up on her request, and she declined to comment when approached.
Paula’s ex-boyfriend said that she sobbed down the phone to him after he sent her the footage of her husband with Pinto – telling him that she had wasted her youth’ on the officer.
‘She called me crying and she really was adamant on her wasting her youth on this man and having children with him,’ said Mackall.
‘I let her know that she isn’t even 30 yet, and it’s a blessing for her to see things clearly and learn, so she can elevate herself.
‘Despite everything that has happened, at the end of the day she is the mother of my son and yes, there have been bad things that she has said and done to me and done to my son.
‘But at the end of the day, I don’t wish bad on anyone and to be embarrassed like that as a wife is awful.
‘I really don’t know exactly how she felt but I can only imagine me being in that situation so I could understand a little bit.’
Court files obtained by DailyMail.com confirm that Marlett was accused a second time of assaulting the boy in December 2022, with Lamarr filing a second protection order over the incident
Mackall told DailyMail.com that he believes that Marlett and Paula met when he pulled her over for driving without a license, with the officer suddenly showing up to pick her up from work.
A colleague of hers told him to stop taking flowers to Paula after spotting a Prince George’s County officer picking her up in a cruiser every day.
He said: ‘Around 2013, we were 20 and 21 years old. My job was right across the street from hers and I would go and visit her on lunch, bring her flowers and that kind of thing. She’s the mother of my child y’know.
‘Another day I went to her job. She wasn’t working, and one of her co-workers told me not to take her flowers anymore because she threw them in the bin.
‘They said that every day someone picks her up in their Prince George’s County cop car. I was surprised, I was young and I don’t have a vehicle myself.
‘I had no idea a police officer was on the scene, but I believe that that’s how he met my son’s mother by pulling her over.
‘Because like I said she didn’t have a license or learner’s permit. I think the video is similar to how he enticed her.’
