@Steve
You just gave the most ridiculous reasoning for domestic violence and child abuse I’ve ever heard. I’m a child of a 30 year LEO, he saw stuff Hollywood could never imagine, and never once did he lay a hand on us when he got home due to “work related stress”. Men, and women, who choose to abuse their families would do it whether they were law enforcement or truck drivers, regardless of the work load.

@alabamanon
DV in law enforcement doesn’t have a solid statistic because victims aren’t honest just like the rest of normal citizens. We will never truly know how many women and children are beaten, or abused, daily in any community which is the disgusting fact we should be focusing on instead of 20 year old statistics.

If this former deputy is truly guilty of this crime, I pray he never sees the light of day again. He doesn’t deserve freedom or free will as he’s proven too evil for both.

I pray his victim/s are able to heal and find peace within the chaos that is sexual abuse.

I’m a strong supporter of the police and my husband is a leo. Where to even begin with your comment. There is never an acceptable reason for DV, no matter what you do for a living. What a sickening thing to say. You type those words almost like it’s an excuse to beat on someone. As a wife to a Leo I truly understand the job today as opposed to years ago but it isn’t about the stress it’s about how one deals with the stress. In my 50 years I have buried 3 children, both my parents and a husband. I had the choice after each death to crumple and let life eat me up or put my big girl panties on and move forward. Beating on a loved one was never an option.

I’m also a paramedic and endure a lot of stress in my job. Peoples lives depend on my actions. Doing the wrong thing kills people. Arriving on scene at an unresponsive child to find an emaciated baby,sitting in a swing, that has been dead for hours and the mother has no clue. Having run on the same family 6 months earlier and tried to get DHR involved in because the drunken mother was nursing her child who had a bloody and raw bottom from sitting in its own feces. A 10lb -one year old baby. Arrive on scene at a cardiac arrest and the wife is hysterical because her husband died in front of her and having to try to give illusion that her husband has a fighting chance after working him for 25 mins, only to have to tell the wife he has died. Even after those days I go home and hold my children and my 8 rescue pups a little tighter and hope for a better shift next day. I don’t beat on them because my day sucked. Again it goes back to how one deals with stress. Also all leo’s have dept shrinks they can talk to but most choose not to use them because they are dept services. Then get a shrink outside work. I dated a man before I met my husband who was adamant he wasn’t talking to a dept shrink. He’d seen some horrible stuff,including his partners brains all over the door and windshield of a car and suffers from PTSD(still works as a Leo) and talked often about his death. When he retires he wants to go on a raid, be the first in the door and get shot dead. So yeah I know the stressors of the job but if you can’t find ways to deal with the stress other than beating on your loved one it is time to move on and find a better job, get a divorce or get help. If you believe it is ever acceptable to beat on an innocent person because you’ve had a bad day then you are part of the problem.

It isn’t about whose job is more stressful than others. Cops are more stressed than truck drivers? Tell that to the truck driver that just blew his brains out at a truck stop not to long ago..

Apparently basic legal proceedings isn’t your forté, so I’ll keep it super simple for you. A person is NOT found guilty and THEN prosecuted. A person is prosecuted (put on trial) to determine if they’re guilty. So, one more time…..an accused person goes to trial, THEN a jury of their peers decides whether the person is innocent or guilt and gives a verdict.