By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a convicted child rapist from Cushing on a felony charge of violation of sex offender registration, court records show.
Brett Lee Bozworth, 21, admitted to a probation officer on Aug. 20 that he had not lived at his registered address in Stillwater for about three weeks, an affidavit alleged.
Bozworth said “he has been living with his girlfriend close to Oklahoma State University and was unaware of the physical address,” Probation Officer Jason Nixon alleged in an affidavit.
Bozworth lived in Cushing when he pleaded guilty to having sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in Cushing on three occasions when he was 20, court records show.
At his sentencing in March on three counts of second-degree rape of a girl under the age of 16, Bozworth was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
Bozworth was given a 365-day jail sentence, with credit for the time he had served since his arrest in June of 2018, followed by nine years of probation.
Bozworth was ordered to submit a DNA sample, forfeit rights to his confiscated phone, follow all rules of a sex offender including social media limitations, and pay the cost of his incarceration along with $300 to the victims’ compensation fund.
An emergency protective order obtained by the girl’s father on her behalf was extended to remain valid for five years after his release from jail, court records show.
When the 14-year-old girl was interviewed at the Saville Center in Stillwater on June 25,2018, she said “she believed Bozworth needed to get some help because he was attracted to ‘younger kids,"” Cushing Police Officer Jerrod Livergood wrote in an affidavit.
The officer had been sent to a Cushing home on June 16, 2018, about a runaway 14-year-old girl, who was interviewed at the Cushing hospital after she was located, the affidavit said.
“I was later advised that the emergency room staff believed (the girl) may have been raped due to vaginal injuries and pain,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit
The girl initially told the nurse she left home about 4 a.m. on June 16, 2018, and was picked up close to her house by a stranger, who offered her a ride out of town, the affidavit said. She said she had a lapse of memory most of the day, but was dropped off on the side of the road late in the evening and had a lot of pain, the affidavit said.
But on June 20, 2018, the girl’s mother told the Cushing officer “she found messages between a 20-year-old male named Brett Bozworth that were of concern,” and believed her daughter was “protecting Bozworth so he wouldn’t get in trouble,” the affidavit said.
When Bozworth was interviewed on June 24, 2018, at the Cushing police station, he initially denied being with the girl on June 16, 2018, the night she ran away, the affidavit said.
After Bozworth provided a DNA swab to be compared to the girl’s sexual assault kit from the hospital, he admitted being with her on June 16, 2018, the affidavit said.
Bozworth said that he and the underage girl “were in a ‘talking’ relationship and that they had consensual sex,” at a house on S. Central Street in Cushing on June 16, 2018, the affidavit said.
Bozworth said that later in the day he and his friend dropped the girl off in another town at her relative’s residence, the affidavit said.
Bozworth admitted that he knew she was 14 “and that it was illegal to have sex with her,” the affidavit said.
Bozworth said the first time they had sex was in her bed in the beginning of May of 2018 when she went home sick from school, the affidavit said.
During an interview on June 25, 2018, with the girl at the Saville Center, the girl said “she has been in a relationship with 20-year-old Brett Bozworth for about two months and has known him for several years,” the affidavit said.
She said “she has had sex with Bozworth three times beginning when she was in the 9th grade and 14-years-old,” the affidavit said
She said “she never told Bozworth ‘no’ when he wanted to have sex, although each time she advised that she was afraid of losing the relationship so she allowed him to have sex with her,” the affidavit said.
She said “since he was over 18, they kept the relationship a secret because they both knew if they got caught he would go to jail,” the affidavit said.
The girl’s parents “reported the rape and wish to pursue charges on Bozworth,” the affidavit said.
According to court records, nine months earlier when Bozworth was 19, he was charged with violating a protective order by transporting a 13-year-old girl in his vehicle on Sept. 8, 2017 — two months after an EPO regarding that girl was obtained by her mother on her behalf.
The following month, Bozworth pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge for which he was given a 30-day jail term, with credit for time served, ordered to provide a DNA sample and pay incarceration costs, court records show.
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