Hopkins was allegedly one of two guards working that night. The library doesn’t have surveillance, but one or more hallway cameras would have captured someone entering or leaving the room, the complaint states.
Still, Hopkins had no reason to be in the library, court papers allege. He is accused of approaching Fowler from behind and putting his hands down her shirt to grope her. Then he allegedly asked her “suck my ding dong.”
According to the suit, Hopkins coerced Fowler into oral sex in the library on several other occasions. Fowler told him she didn’t want to engage in the activity and that it was physically uncomfortable for her, the complaint alleges.
Hopkins, who was married, then demanded vaginal sex from Fowler and ordered her to “bend over,” the lawsuit claims. When Fowler requested the deputy use a condom, he allegedly refused and said “married men don’t buy condoms.”
Fowler “felt coerced by Defendant Hopkin’s authority over her into complying to avoid retribution and retaliation,” court papers state.
The rogue deputy continued to force Fowler to have nonconsensual and unprotected sex four times over a period of a few weeks, the lawsuit claims.
The alleged rapes led to Fowler becoming pregnant in April or May of 2017.
On May 13, a sheriff’s department sergeant asked Fowler, who became depressed after the string of alleged sexual assaults, what was going on after he sensed a change in her emotional state, court documents state.
Fowler then told the sergeant about the repeated sexual abuse she experienced.