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Beulah Man’s Plea Deal Drops Sexual Battery Charge, Leads to Probation For Child Abuse
October 20, 2025
A Beulah man has been sentenced on a child abuse charge.
William Gavi Baughman, now 28, was originally charged with felony sexual battery by a person over 24 on a victim 16 or 17 years of age for an incident that reportedly took place March 19 at a residence on Frank Reeder Road. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office was initially called to the location for a citizen assist after a woman reported that her daughter and a friend had been abandoned while on spring break from Texas. The report states they had been invited to stay at the home by a Snapchat friend that also lives at the home.
The 16-year-old victim told deputies that she engaged in sexual activity with Baughman multiple times at the residence, according to an arrest report. The victim stated that the encounters occurred over the course of their stay.
The sexual battery charge was dropped, and Baughman pleaded no contest to child abuse under a plea deal according to court documents.
Adjudication was withheld, and he was sentenced to 24 months probation. He was also ordered to enroll in a sex offender treatment program within the first 60 days of his probation, complete 50 hours of community service, maintain full-time employment and pay fines and court costs.
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7 Responses to “Beulah Man’s Plea Deal Drops Sexual Battery Charge, Leads to Probation For Child Abuse”
@Susie Yes he got off very light. But to call a 16yo a child … If the 16yo had killed someone they would charge them as an adult, they can get an abortion without parents consent(in many places) and get hormones(again in many places). So she is either a child or not.
Juries pulled from Florida driver license & identification records.
The Motor Voter law requires government offices to offer voter applications to each visitor in the office. Tax Collector offices receive and forward the applications to the Supervisor of Elections office. Voter applications must still satisfy all requirements of Florida law and be approved by the Supervisor of Elections.
Since 1991 juries for state and local courts, names are randomly selected from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) records of people who have a driver’s license or a state identification card.
He must enroll in a sex offenders treatment program?GUILTY!
Assistant State Attorneys know that it’s harder than ever to get jury convictions. Thanks to the motor voter bill voter cards are handed out like candy. It is no longer a jury of peers when you have kids with T-shirts, dreadlocks and multi-colored hair sitting on a jury. They have no life experience unless you count social media.
Weak prosecutors and lazy judges accept plea deals. Law enforcement catches the trash, our anemic justice system throws the trash back on the streets.
Ridiculous. Charge the 16 year old’s parent then! This guy knew better and engaged anyway. What was the girl doing there? Abandoned? The mother took no precautions whatsoever. A 16 year old is still a child!!
Pleas for crimes like this should not be allowed. I’m personally in favor of the strictest of punishments, but I don’t make the rules. SMH