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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

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Former Fort Smith Cop Sentenced To Five Years For Sexual Assault


Billy Rowe

A former Fort Smith police officer was sentenced Monday to five years in prison on five counts of sexual assault. Prosecuting Attorney Dan Shue said Billy W. Rowe Jr., 32, of Bonanza was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction with an additional suspension of 15 years on each count. Rowe faced five to 20 years on each count. Shue said Rowe also paid $2,500 in restitution for future counseling for the victim. Rowe was charged under a section of the sexual-assault statute that makes it unlawful for someone who is a mandated reporter and in a position of trust or authority to engage in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with a minor, according to a report. Fort Smith Police Chief Kevin Lindsey ordered an investigation into Rowe on Sept. 11, after the department received multiple anonymous calls reporting Rowe had a relationship with a minor female. The girl said she met Rowe through church about a year previously, and they became close at church camp where Rowe was “somewhat of a youth leader.” They started communicating on Facebook, and they ended up exchanging text messages daily after he gave her his cell phone number, according to a police report. A Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office report alleges their first sexual encounter occurred when the girl went on a ride-along with Rowe. They stopped at her house where no one else was home and engaged in oral sex, according to the report. They subsequently had sexual intercourse three times at a pond near Bonanza and once at Rowe’s Bonanza home, and they exchanged nude pictures of themselves via cellphone before the relationship ended prior to the school year, according to a police report. Rowe told investigators, “I can’t answer any questions like that” when asked if he had sex with the girl. But he did say he did “bad things,” according to a police report. Rowe resigned from the police department shortly before he was arrested Sept. 17. After his arrest, investigators with the police department and sheriff’s office spoke with Rowe’s father, Billy Rowe Sr., his brother, Shane Rowe, and his pastor, who confirmed Rowe told them he had sex with the girl twice, according to police and sheriff’s office reports. Rowe began serving his sentence Monday, and was placed into custody at the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center to await transfer to the state, Shue said.