WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A Broward Sheriff’s Office detention deputy faced a judge on Monday morning after he was arrested on sexual battery charges involving a minor.
Fifty-eight-year-old Verol Cowans was arrested on Thursday and charged with four counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years old.
Cowans was on the clock as a deputy at the Joseph V. Conte Facility when BSO and Palm Beach County deputies took him into custody.
He allegedly admitted in a phone conversation to molesting his previous girlfriend’s daughter when she was 7 years old.
The molestation was said to have lasted for approximately three years.
He has since been suspended without pay and is being held without bond.
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