(TNS) The Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday fined a former juvenile justice guard $5,000 for engaging in “inappropriate physical contact” with a girl who was housed at the Campbell Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Newport two years ago.

Neil A. Moorman, 31, awaits trial Nov. 17 in Campbell Circuit Court on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse related to the same allegations.

In the civil judgment handed down Wednesday, the ethics commission found Moorman abused his official position as a state correctional officer to create advantages for himself and satisfy his own interests.

An attorney for Moorman did not return a call seeking comment.

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice fired Moorman in June 2023 and notified Kentucky State Police after a revi

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