Man who faked death in Alabama to avoid sex assault charges gets 21 months in prison

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Man who faked death in Alabama to avoid sex assault charges gets 21 months in prison
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A man was facing charges in Mississippi in 2018 when he rowed a boat into the Gulf off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama. Investigators said he left a suicide note. He was found alive in early 2020 in Oklahoma and was sentenced recently in the case.

of impregnating a teenage girl in his home state of Mississippi.

Scott was facing charges in Mississippi in July 2018 when he rowed a boat into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama. Investigators said he left a gun and a suicide note. The Coast Guard searched for a body for more than a week. The U.S. Marshals Service captured Scott in early 2020 at an RV park in Antlers, Oklahoma, where he wasScott is from Moss Point, Mississippi. When he absconded in 2018, was scheduled to appear in Mississippi for a contempt-of-court hearing related to a 2017 indictment on charges of sexual battery, touching a child for lustful purposes and child exploitation. He had been set to plead guilty to the charges, which involved a 14-year-old girl he impregnated when he was 40.

Scott’s accuser tearfully testified about how he had sexually assaulted her at least 30 times over several months beginning in 2016 and ending in 2017 when she learned she was pregnant.

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