Ex-sheriff of Custer County faces sex-abuse trial
ARAPAHO -- Former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on 35 felony counts after two days of lurid preliminary hearing testimony about alleged sexual abuses involving female inmates and drug court participants.
Burgess, 56, faces charges ranging from forcible oral sodomy to rape. He is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 25.
“We expected this,” said defense attorney Steve Huddl...
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