A North Carolina state House member has been charged with sex-related crimes involving a teenager earlier this year, court records show.

Six-term Democratic state Rep. Cecil Brockman, 41, of High Point, was arrested Wednesday on two counts each of statutory sexual offense with a child and taking indecent liberties with a child, according to a magistrate's order detailing his arrest.

Brockman was being held Thursday without bond in the High Point Jail, according to the Guilford County Sheriff's Office. A court appearance was scheduled for later Thursday.

The magistrate's order says Brockman is twice accused in or around Aug. 15 of engaging in a sex act with a 15-year-old and is twice alleged to have committed and attempted to commit “a lewd and lascivious act” upon the juvenile. The alle

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