In 2012, three months after Eddie Scott became sheriff of Clay County, Miss., a claim by a woman he had helped put behind bars threatened to tarnish his earliest days in office.
The woman said in an April court filing that, while chief deputy less than three years earlier, he had coerced her into a sexual relationship after she was arrested.
She laid out her allegations in state circuit court in October 2012 and asked a judge to overturn her prison sentence.
To back up her story, the 26-year-old showed suggestive letters with a return address of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and signed by then-Chief Deputy Scott, who was 47.
“Hey Sexy,” he wrote to her in prison nine months before his election to the top job.
Persons:
Eddie Scott, Scott, ”, “
Organizations:
Sheriff’s
Locations:
Clay County, Miss, Clay