Bowen Turner's sexual misconduct charge and guilty plea for assault and battery showed up on South Carolina's public index for the first time this week, just days after a local media outlet pressured the court about the absence of the charges.
South Carolina prosecutors filed new charges Thursday against a 19-year-old who was sentenced to probation just last month after a plea deal designed to allow him to avoid jail and the sex offender registry in the wake of multiple allegations of sex assaults, court records show.