Former Deputy Charles Grady Jr Pleaded No Contest to Peeking at Womans Breast

FORT LAUDERDALE

It was the deputy's fixation with women's breasts that was his undoing.

It cost him his job. It cost him his state law-enforcement certification. And now it has cost him two misdemeanor convictions on his criminal record.

Former Broward Sheriff's Deputy Charles E. Grady Jr. pleaded no contest Thursday to accusations that he ogled women's breasts after traffic stops last year.

Abiding by the terms of a negotiated plea deal, County Court Judge Mary Rudd Robinson sentenced Grady to two years' probation and ordered that he undergo psychological evaluation.

Grady, 39, resigned from the Sheriff's Office on April 1, two days after prosecutors filed two misdemeanor battery charges related to incidents reported during drunken-driving traffic stops last September and December.

As required for the plea deal, Grady relinquished his state law-enforcement certification April 6. He had been with the agency for 12 years and worked with the DUI task force.

Looking thin, pale and downcast, Grady left the courtroom without comment Thursday after sentencing.

In court, prosecutor David Schulson recounted Grady's actions during the traffic stops.

He said that on Sept. 19, Grady was called out by another deputy to give a field sobriety test to a 38-year-old old Boca Raton woman after she was pulled over about 3 a.m. near the Solid Gold strip club where she worked as a dancer.

When Grady took her to a holding cell, Schulson said, Grady pulled her shirt away from her chest and stared at her breasts.

On Dec. 19, when Grady stopped a 20-year-old Coral Springs woman at 2:45 a.m., Schulson said, Grady reached through her open car window and pulled on her bra strap to jiggle her breasts.

The woman in the September incident attended the hearing. To protect her identity, the Sun Sentinel is not publishing her name.

Outside court, she said it was scary to have been taken advantage of by someone in authority.

"I do have a fear that there are more victims out there, but who didn't come forward," she said.

Each of the first-degree misdemeanors could have carried a maximum penalty of a year in jail.

"The primary goal was to remove him from law enforcement not only in the state of Florida, but throughout the country," Schulson said.

The guilty convictions on Grady's criminal record should ensure that, Schulson said.