Judge Suspends Computer/Phone Privileges for Jail Inmate Facing Child Sexual Abuse Charges After Alleged Violations of No Contact Order
On October 12, Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Det. Clinton Ferguson charged Tony Bernard Perryman Jr., 37, with several misdemeanor charges relating to the violation of a no-contact order.
Perryman was arrested in July on a dozen first degree felony counts of sexual battery against two victims under 12. Judge Meshon Rawls ordered him to have no contact with the victims and their mother.
Earlier this month, jail staff intercepted a letter addressed to an uninvolved three-year-old child. However, the contents of the letter were reportedly directed towards the victims’ mother.
“The contents were describing his innocence and that she needed to drop the no contact order, and to ask the victims an assortment of questions,” reported Ferguson.
The case detective told Ferguson that the victims’ mother provided him with three other letters sent by Perryman.
Ferguson went on to view two similar letters sent by Perryman. He reportedly became “more aggressive in his writing” as time passed.
Judge Susan Miller-Jones suspended Perryman’s computer and telephone privileges, court records show.
Editor's Notes: Ferguson charged Perryman with seven counts of violating pretrial release conditions but court records indicate that police recovered six letters. The name of the charge, "violating pretrial release conditions," legally refers to the court orders and is not contingent on a defendant's custody status.
