Child Sex Suspect Faces Additional Charges

RUSK – Bullard-area child sex suspect Thomas E. Scroggins, 25, has been charged with additional offenses over the past few days as the investigations continue to progress. Scroggins has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, an additional $227,000 in bonds were set Tuesday by Justice of the Peace Brenda Dominy on five charges. Those included indecency with a child, injury to a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and displaying harmful material to minor. On Thursday a sheriff’s office investigator executed a second search warrant in Smith County at a storage facility where Scroggins stored some belongings. Officials say the results of that search warrant are not available at this time but more charges are anticipated. To date, eight criminal charges have been brought against Scroggins with bonds totaling $329,000.

Scroggins was initially jailed on $102,000 bond on two counts of indecency with a child and one count of displaying harmful material to a minor. At the time of his arrest last Friday, Scroggins was employed with the Frankston ISD Maintenance Department. He also attended a Frankston church and was involved with Little League Baseball in that community. The investigation into Scroggins began when an alleged victim claimed inappropriate conduct by Scroggins toward that person and two others, and officials said earlier this week that the case against Scroggins could expand.