Finding that a former police officer acted in her “capacity as a mother” when instructing her son to delete an explicit photo off her department-issued cellphone, a Commonwealth Court panel reversed an order that would have required her to forfeit her pension benefits after her criminal conviction.

Jamie Quinn, a former Sunbury police officer, challenged a decision by Northumberland County Common Pleas Court Judge Harold F. Woelfel Jr., which affirmed the City of Sunbury Police Pension Commission’s denial of her pension benefits. Woelfel concluded that there was a “‘nexus between the public employee [i.e., Quinn], the crime and [Quinn's] public employment [as a police officer],’” after 22 years on the job, according to the three-judge panel’s opinion filed Tuesday.

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