The Shelby Star
A team approach has helped keep more than 200 Cleveland County inmates COVID free, according to the local sheriff.
The process hasn’t been impenetrable. The detention centers did see an outbreak in August, but things have leveled out in the months that followed, said Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman.
As COVID-19 continues to rage across the country, strict steps have been followed to try and keep the virus out of the county’s two detention centers, Norman said.
“Early on we knew that we needed to come up with some kind of plan to attempt to keep COVID outside of the inmate population,” he said.
Moore man charged with child sexual abuse
A Moore man faces four felony counts of child sexual abuse in Cleveland County District Court.
Timothy Matthew Aker, 42, was charged Dec. 29 after he allegedly touched the privates of a now 16-year-old girl over a three-year period.
According to a court affidavit, an Oklahoma City officer began investigating the case Dec. 4. During a forensic interview, the girl said the sexual abuse started when she was around age 13. While she was in gymnastics, Aker would begin rubbing her legs, then move up until he reached under her shorts.
During the forensic interview, the most recent event that she cited was in August, when she was sitting on the couch under a blanket next to Aker. Aker allegedly reached under the blanket and touched her privates. She also said Aker had massaged her chest, kissed the inside of her legs and performed oral sex on her at other times.