cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5906611

MODESTO, Calif. — A Stanislaus County deputy is on leave after he was accused of sexually abusing a teen, officials said.

According to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, 40-year-old Matthew Dessert of Oakdale was booked into the Stanislaus County Jail on charges that include continued sexual abuse of a child, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor 14 or 15 years of age, penetration with a foreign object of a victim under the age of 18, sexual battery and physical abuse of a child.