Sheriff groped me, deputy testifies

ARAPAHO, Ohio (AP) -- A former sheriff groped a deputy and grabbed her buttocks several times while she was employed at his office, the deputy testified Tuesday.
Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess faced 35 felony counts, most of them sexual offenses.





Jennifer Tyler, now a deputy sheriff in Washington state, said that before her first day of the job, Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess put his hand down the back of her trousers and touched her waistline and buttocks during a uniform fitting.
"It's degrading to have someone who just hired you to stick his hands down your pants," Tyler said.
She also testified on the first day of a preliminary hearing on charges that Burgess had inappropriate sexual contact with women he oversaw in the county's drug court program. He faces 35 felony charges, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.


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