Upshur County Sheriff’s deputy, Richard Louis Bridgewater
(29) is sentenced to eight years behind prison walls for molesting an
11-year-old girl. Late last year the victim told her friends about the
molestation, and later on in an interview she said that he had touched her up
to 20 separate times at his home. Bridgewater admitted this during a meeting
with Texas Ranger Ronny Griffith. He was then placed in the Titus County Jail
where he remained until he was sentenced. Bridgewater had to permanently surrender
his police officer license. Attorney Billy Byrd said that Bridgewater got a
fair punishment, and he thinks it’s going to be hard for the little girl to
handle the traumas that the incident has brought her.
The Fairfax County Police
Sweeping it under the carpet for over fifty years