{"id":160286,"date":"2012-01-28T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160286"},"modified":"2012-01-30T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:57:23","slug":"former-deputy-indicted-on-child-sex-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160286","title":{"rendered":"Former Deputy Indicted on Child Sex Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=160534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/Harrison-County-SO-Badge.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Harrison County SO Badge\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-160534\" \/><\/a>HARRISON COUNTY \u2014 A former Harrison County sheriff\u2019s deputy has been indicted on his third charge of sexual indecency with a child. Huey Edwards \u201cEddie\u201d Nichols was arrested in September on two charges of sexual indecency with a child by contact. He was arrested again in December on a third sex indecency charge. According to the Longview News-Journal, in the latest case, Nichols is accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl between January 2002 and March 2003. Authorities learned of the third accusation from a school counselor, who came forward with the information after Nichols and his wife were arrested in the other two cases.<\/p>\n<p>The girl, who now is an adult, told police that Nichols touched her inappropriately when she was 15. Police said the girl met Nichols in 2002 after running away to a vacant house after a counseling session. Nichols was one of the responding officers to the scene and asked the girl\u2019s grandmother if he could be her male role model, according to police documents.<\/p>\n<p>The other two cases involve two girls, age 14 and 11, who also told a school counselor and authorities that Nichols touched them inappropriately. Nichols, who is also an ordained minister, was immediately fired from the sheriff\u2019s office after the investigation in the first case. His wife, 33-year-old Sharon Nichols, was fired from her position as deputy county clerk a few days later. Huey Nichols worked at the sheriff\u2019s office for three-and-a-half years. Before that, he worked as a Marshall police officer for 13 years. He also served as the police department\u2019s chaplain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISON COUNTY \u2014 A former Harrison County sheriff\u2019s deputy has been indicted on his third charge of sexual indecency with a child. Huey Edwards \u201cEddie\u201d Nichols was arrested in September on two charges of sexual indecency with a child by contact. He was arrested again in December on a third sex indecency charge. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Deputy Indicted on Child Sex Charge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 19:04:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160286"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160571,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160286\/revisions\/160571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}