ARLINGTON, Tenn. — More disturbing details have emerged in the arrest of a Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputy charged with statutory rape.
Nathaniel Huntley was charged with statutory rape by an authority figure and suspended without pay.
When we spoke with them, neighbors were shaken.
“I saw police cars, a couple of them down there,” one woman said.
Police said it was in an Arlington neighborhood, the 7000 block of Romero Drive, where Deputy Huntley sexually abused a juvenile girl.
He had been reportedly living with a woman and her daughter for about two weeks.
They didn’t say what their relationship was, but a report stated when the woman went to spend the night at her boyfriend’s house, Huntley and the young girl were left alone.
While the mother was gone, they said the two had sexual relations.
The thought made Jackie Martin’s skin crawl.
“It makes you concerned about the other children in the neighborhood that he might have had interaction with,” said the mother.
Huntley’s personnel file contained only one write up for arresting someone too quickly, without witnessing the incident.
Neighbors said they were glad he was locked up.
“Taking advantage of his position- It kind of seems like that’s the issue right now, especially with a young child. It’s sad,” Martin said.
Huntley had a video arraignment Friday morning.
He was held on a $15,000 bond and will be in court again September 25.