More Details Released in Case Involving Former Cop

LONGVIEW — A former Longview police officer was in the Gregg County Jail charged with indecency with a child stemming from incidents that allegedly occurred while he was on the force in the 1980s and 1990s as well as in March 2011. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Former Longview police officer Michael Patrick Healy wrote in a private Facebook message that he caused “major harm” to a now-adult man and others after the man confronted Healy with accusations of child sexual abuse, according to a March arrest warrant. Longview police arrested Healy on March 18 on a charge of indecency with a child by sexual contact. He was released from the Gregg County Jail the same day on $100,000 bond. Healy was arrested again Monday on two grand jury indictments for indecency with a child.

District Judge David Brabham set Healy’s bond at $50,000 for one indictment filed July 28. That indictment includes one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of attempted indecency with a child by sexual contact that authorities said occurred in March 2011.

Another indictment filed July 28 includes two counts of indecency with a child by exposure and two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact stemming from incidents in 1987, 1993 and 1995.

There is no statute of limitations in Texas for indecency with a child.