A Frederick County grand jury on Friday indicted a sheriff's deputy on four criminal charges stemming from a sexual relationship he is alleged to have had with a 14-year-old girl at Walkersville High School, State's Attorney Charlie Smith said.
At the time of his arrest, Deputy Sam A. Bowman was assigned to the high school as its school resource officer.
Initially facing charges of sex abuse of a minor and a fourth-degree sex offense, the indictment returned Friday adds two more counts of fourth-degree sex offense for acts alleged to have occurred with the ninth-grade student between March 9 and March 15, Smith said.
Richard Bricken, Bowman's defense attorney, could not be reached for comment Friday.
As is customary in criminal cases involving members of local law enforcement, Smith called in a special prosecutor from an outside county to handle the case against Bowman, 46, of New Market.
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Sounds like they had the fox guarding the hen house. Sick individual that apparently was not caught on the background and polygraph check.
ReplyDeletethere should be periodic checks with all resource officers, at least annually to make sure this is prevented and/or prosecuted immediately.
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