By Steve Neavling
A former FBI agent convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper was sentenced to life in prison Friday.
Christopher Bauer was found guilty of first-degree sodomy and sexual abuse of a child under 12 following a weeklong trial in June.
“It is always extremely disappointing when someone who is supposed to enforce and uphold the law commits a crime against the people they have sworn to protect,” Mongomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey said in a news release. “He is a bad apple – a depraved monster who abused his power to irreparably harm a vulnerable, innocent child.”
His conviction came a little more than two years after the Associated Press revealed he was forced out of the bureau for allegedly raping a co-worker at knifepoint.
Bauer was suspended without pay from the FBI’s New Orleans Field Office in late 2018 after he was accused of raping a co-worker at knifepoint. He managed to land a job as a state trooper after he provided a fake bureau letter that made his record look clean.
Then in 2021, Bauer was charged with raping the 11-year-old girl. He has been in jail since then.
At the trial, his attorney claimed the girl made up the allegations.
The girl, who is now a teenager, testified that Bauer abused her for years, and she was too scared to say anything.
Bauer is also facing similar child sex abuse charges outside of New Orleans.
