David Eugene BroomeA Sequatchie County Constable has pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of child abuse and neglect and endangerment after he was charged in 2013 for raping a child.
David Eugene Broome, 61, was arrested in September 2013 after a grand jury indicted him for allegedly having “sexual contact” with an 8-year-old girl. He was charged with one county of rape of a child.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the incidents occurred at Broome’s Signal Mountain home in December 2012 and January 2013.
Broome has been out on bond, and his trial by jury was scheduled to begin on Jan. 16, but he pleaded no contest to the lesser charges on Dec. 20, a Sequatchie County clerk told the Times Free Press.
By pleading no contest to the lesser charges, Broome will be allowed to enter court diversion, which means his record will be wiped clean as long as he successfully serves unsupervised probation for 11 months and 29 days.