A former sheriff's deputy charged with felony child neglect for failing to ...
- A former sheriff’s deputy charged with felony child neglect for failing to enter a Florida high school building to intervene during a deadly mass shooting there last year posted bond and was freed from jail on Thursday following an initial court appearance.
During a brief hearing in Broward County Circuit Court, Judge Elizabeth Scherer agreed to lower Peterson’s bond to $39,500, from an initial $102,000, and ordered him to turn over his passport within 48 hours, according to Kristi Grimm, a spokeswoman for the county State Attorney’s Office.
Peterson said in a Miami Herald interview last June he was haunted by the tragedy, replaying the scene over and over in his mind, recounting how he initially believed the shots might be coming from a parking lot or the roof. DiRuzzo contended his client, who was widely disparaged in the media as “the coward of Broward,” was being made a scapegoat for a massacre perpetrated by a lone gunman.
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