An Outagamie County sheriff's deputy is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl and two counts of disorderly conduct while off-duty.
Police say the girl attended the same high school in Freedom where 35-year-old Adam Burrows was the police school liaison officer.
The criminal complaint in the case accuses the deputy of inappropriately touching the girl while she was camping with another family near Lake Poygan in July.
According to the complaint, while the 16-year-old girl alleges Burrows kissed her inside his cabin, investigators say the teenager told them Burrows put his hand down her pants out by a campfire in front of at least one other person.
According to the complaint, the girl "says she kept trying to move around the fire but the defendant kept following her. She thought the defendant was pretty drunk."
Police say the teen said she knows the sheriff's deputy because she goes to school at Freedom High School where Burrows was the police school liaison officer.
It's a position at the school Burrows no longer holds.
Burrows is on paid administrative leave pending the criminal and an internal investigation.
"The misconduct in question here took place when he was off-duty and out of the county, and not related to his assignment (as liaison officer). Still, any alleged conduct of that nature is of great concern to the department," Captain Mike Jobe, Outagamie County Sheriff's Department, said.
Burrows was not home when we tried to talk to him, but his attorney says the allegations are simply not true.
"I think you know when everything comes out we're fairly confident that Adam is going to be vindicated," attorney Rob Bellin said. "There's going to be plenty of evidence that that story is just not believable."
But the 16-year old isn't the only one alleging misconduct by the off-duty officer, according to this criminal complaint. A woman says Burrows kept putting his arm around her and then tackled her to the ground.
She's the same woman who told police that she removed Burrows's hand from the pants of the 16-year-old girl.
According to the criminal complaint, police say she told him, "She's 16, and if you ever touch her again, I'll kill you."
If he is found guilty, the deputy could spend more than a year behind bars.
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