NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) — A detention deputy with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is accused in a disturbing case of child abuse in which he allegedly put liquid hand soap in a 7-year-old girl’s mouth and choked her while hitting her in the face.
Ryan Robert Ferguson, 29, was arrested and charged with child abuse on March 17.
According to an arrest affidavit, the girl told investigators that Ferguson put liquid hand soap in her mouth because she lied about something. He then threw her onto the couch and slapped her on the bottom repeatedly.
