Another Freaky Judge Indicted

First there was the penis pump using, masturbating judge Donald Thompson. Now there's Samuel Kent, a federal judge that has been indicted on sex crime charges. This begs the question, exactly what are some of these judges doing at work.

Samuel Kent: First Federal Judge Charged With Federal Sex Crimes

It’s rare that the feds indict a sitting judge. But that’s what happened yesterday when U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was indicted on charges of abusive sexual contact and attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a female employee. The Houston Chron reports that the indictment puts Kent on the wrong side of history: he’s the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes and the first in Texas indicted in recent history. Here’s the four-page indictment.

The federal criminal investigation was launched in November 2007 after Kent’s former case manager, Cathy McBroom, complained that the judge physically touched her under her clothing twice and often made obscene suggestions during the six years she worked for him.

Through her attorney, McBroom released a statement yesterday: “After a very difficult 17 months, I feel like I have finally been validated. I have listened and read with horror as Judge Kent’s lawyer suggested that what happened to me was ‘enthusiastically consensual,’ ” wrote McBroom, who remains a federal court employee. “I am relieved to find that even federal judges are not above the law, and that sexual abuse in the workplace is never acceptable, no matter the status of the offender.”...

Rusty Hardin, who repped Roger Clemens in the steroid scandal and has been described as slicker n’ deer guts on a doorknob, is McBroom’s attorney. He told the Chron: “I’m extremely disappointed that Dick would choose to try the victim and in this case he just totally ignores the evidence.”

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