Former Jackson County, Missouri, Deputy Indicted for Civil Rights Violation
Former Jackson County, Missouri, Deputy Indicted for Civil Rights Violation
A former Jackson County, Mo., sheriffs deputy was indicted on April 7, 2009, by a federal grand jury for violating the civil rights of a teenage girl whom he forced to perform sexual acts in his patrol car. The indictment alleges that Steven W. Burgess, 35, of Independence, Mo., then a deputy sheriff with the Jackson County Sheriffs Department, while acting under color of law, deprived a minor child of her Constitutional rights on July 24, 2007.