The former local probation officer who engaged in sexual activity with a woman he was supposed to be supervising entered an Alford plea in Christian District Court Friday morning.
An Alford plea to the first-degree official misconduct charge is effectively a guilty plea, but allows 43-year old Dan Bowerson of Indian Mound, Tennessee to maintain his innocence while acknowledging the commonwealth likely has enough evidence to convict.
Judge Foster Cotthoff went along with the plea deal, probating Bowerson’s 120-day sentence and preventing him from ever working in corrections or law enforcement again.
Judge Cotthoff noted that the conviction will remain on Bowerson’s criminal record for at least seven years.
A criminal summons taken out by Kentucky State Police says Bowerson was working as a probation officer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky between December of 2019 and May of 2020 when he engaged in “a sexual and personal relationship with a female probationer he was assigned to supervise in violation of Kentucky law and the requirements of his position with the Department of Corrections.”