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Ex-Caroline deputy is re-indicted on allegations that he feloniously abused a child. Date published: 10/9/2009
BY PORTSIA SMITH
A former Caroline County deputy was re-indicted this week on allegations that he feloniously abused a child. Clyde Charles Davenport, 49, of Ashland, was indicted in Caroline County Circuit Court Wednesday on charges of child abuse, child abuse resulting in serious injury and malicious bodily injury. According to Commonwealth’s Attorney Tony Spencer, the charges stem from incidents that allegedly occurred between January 2005 and December 2006. Davenport had been indicted in Caroline County last summer on five counts of forcible sodomy of a child under 13. The indictment followed a state police investigation.
But those charges were recently dropped by Spencer in order to present the new charges.
“We felt that it was appropriate to nolle prosse the old charges first," Spencer said.
State Police said the initial investigation began after a complaint last year by the Department of Social Services.
The five indictments are based on year-long time frames spanning from December 1998 to December 2003, police said.
Davenport was hired as a Caroline deputy in 1988 by then-Sheriff O.J. Moore and left the force in 1997, when Homer Johnson was sheriff.
According to stories published in The Free Lance–Star, Davenport put his name in to run for sheriff in 1999 and 2003. He was defeated by Johnson in the first election and did not continue with his 2003 campaign plans.
Portsia Smith: 540/374-5419
So why did they drop the molestation charges for of child abuse? Seems to me the former would of carried a tougher sentence. They need to stick with the plan and give this child justice.
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