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July 10, 2010

Former deputy pleads no contest to lewd acts charge

By Cass Rains, Staff Writer Enid News and Eagle

A former Kingfisher County deputy received a five-year suspended sentence last week after pleading no contest to a charge of lewd acts with a child under 16.

Shawn Theo Thomsen, 43, pleaded no contest Thursday to the felony charge, which is punishable by three to 20 years in prison.

In addition to the five years probation, Thomsen also was ordered to pay a $150 DNA fee, $50 to the Victim’s Compensation Fund and court costs. His sentence will expire July 8, 2015.

Thomsen was charged Jan. 5, 2009, with the felony and was fired from the Kingfisher County Sherriff’s Office.

According to an affidavit prepared by an Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation agent, a 14-year-old girl told Agent Dannie Sanders on Sept. 9, 2008, that in July or early August Thomsen had put his hand down the front of her pants while kissing her on the neck.

The girl said he was at Thomsen’s house in Kingfisher playing pool when Thomsen suggested “they play a game of strip pool,” the affidavit states. The girl told Thomsen no, but after losing a couple of games he asked the girl if she was going to take her shirt off or if he was going to have to do it.

The girl said Thomsen then came over to her, began kissing her and placed his hand down the front of her pants, between her pants and underwear. The girl said she told Thomsen to stop but he wouldn’t.

The girl told investigators she sent a text message to her brother, asking him to call her father to pick her up, and also text messaged her boyfriend. The girl’s father left work to pick her up, but the girl didn’t tell her father what Thomsen did but “she never wanted to go back to his house,” the affidavit states.

On Oct. 2, Sanders interviewed Thomsen, who denied touching the girl. Thomsen told Sanders the girl tried to kiss him while they were playing pool.

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