A former Skyline, Ala., high school resource officer was charged Monday in a sex crimes case from 2003 involving a then-teenage girl who has come forward with the allegations as an adult.
Lee Carrell Perry Jr., 49, of Fackler, Ala., was arrested Sunday on grand jury indictments charging him with one count of second-degree statutory rape, three counts of sexual contact with a victim 12 to 16 years old, three counts of second-degree sodomy and two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes, according to Jackson County authorities.
Lee Carrell Perry Jr.Perry is free on a $65,000 bond.
Jackson County Sheriff Chuck Phillips said Tuesday that Perry was a school resource officer with the sheriff’s office in 2003 when Phillips was chief investigator. Perry was the SRO at Skyline High School and had previously worked at the Skyline Police Department. The girl, then in her early teens, didn’t want to pursue charges in 2003 when the allegations first arose, the sheriff said.
“Thank goodness she changed her mind,” Phillips said Tuesday. “Over the years it must have bothered her and she decided she needed to do something about it, but I don’t know for sure.”