County Employee Accused : Molestation: A Children’s Services supervisor is alleged to have abused his grandchildren, children of neighbors.

A veteran supervisor from the county Department of Children’s Services has been arrested for allegedly molesting at least seven boys and girls, including his grandchildren and the children of neighbors, authorities said Wednesday.

Gerald Davis, 54, of Long Beach, was arrested Tuesday night at his home and is scheduled to be arraigned in Long Beach Municipal Court today.

Long Beach police said none of the seven alleged victims include children Davis worked with through the county. But they added that further investigation into cases Davis handled will be conducted.

“DCS will open up his old cases,” Detective Jana Blair said. “We are still trying to locate victims among his cases, but none so far. It’s too soon.”

Davis has been employed by the department for 28 years and most recently worked as supervisor in the agency’s Belvedere office in East Los Angeles. He has been suspended pending outcome of the molestation case.

Blair said Davis is accused of molesting four of his grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and three neighbor children who had visited his home over the last year. The alleged victims were boys and girls ranging in age from 7 or 8 years to infants, the detective said.

Investigators said Davis’ stepson has also reported that Davis molested him 20 years ago. Other relatives were being interviewed Wednesday.

“Being a children’s services worker, everybody trusted him,” Blair said. “He comes off as a nice guy, friendly, and he enjoys being around kids.”

Medical examinations of the children have not been conducted but will be scheduled, Blair said.

The investigation into Davis began after a neighbor’s child complained to his parents that he had been molested and the parents went to the police.

Davis’ arrest was without incident, police said. He was booked on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior involving children under 14, and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

There was no immediate comment from the Children’s Services Department.

But a source at the agency said Davis often insisted on personally handling a few children’s cases, behavior that had aroused the suspicion of some of his co-workers, who had reported him to superiors in the department.

Times staff writer Kim Kowsky contributed to this story.