AUSTIN, Texas – The former deputy arrested in the fatal Sunday shooting of three people in Austin, Texas, was left largely unsupervised by the criminal justice system months after a woman asserted in sworn affidavits that she and a child feared he would hurt them.
An examination of court records shows Stephen Broderick, a former property crimes detective with the Travis County sheriff s office, spent 16 days in jail last summer on charges of sexually assaulting a child.
Broderick, 41, then posted bail, which was set at $50,000, on June 22. The courts ordered him not to contact or go within 200 feet of the child. Broderick also was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device.
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