An Alabama jury has convicted a state trooper of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.
This photo provided by the Montgomery County Detention Center in April 2021, shows Christopher Bauer. On Friday, June 14, 2024, the former FBI agent was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper a law enforcement job he landed even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims that he raped a co-worker at knifepoint.
During the Alabama trial, the child, who is now a young teen, testified through tears that she was repeatedly abused by Bauer over a period of years, too scared to say no or to tell anyone what was happening. Bauer took the stand and testified in his own defense during the trial, responding “no, never” when asked if he had abused or sodomized the child.Bauer’s time in the FBI was not discussed in detail at the trial. The judge granted a defense request to exclude statements about the allegations by a co-worker in Louisiana that he had raped her at knifepoint.
The case also highlights the slipshod system of decertification in the United States in which problematic officers have remained in law enforcement by joining a new agency or relocating to a different state. For years, federal law enforcement agencies did not provide data on fired or disciplined agents to the National Decertification Index.
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