Montgomery Police Officer Charged with Enticing 15-Year Old Girl

The Montgomery Police Department has initiated disciplinary actions against a 22-year-old police officer after charging him with enticing a 15-year-old female. MPD charged Stevie Rodgers with one count of enticing a child to enter a house for immoral purposes, (§13A-6-69, Code of Alabama) a Class C felony. Officers placed him in the Montgomery County Detention Facility, where he was being held under a $5,000 bond.

MPD initiated the investigation early morning Oct. 25 after receiving a complaint involving an on-duty police officer.

The incident is alleged to have occurred about 6:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the course of Rodgers’ response to a report of an unknown disturbance involving teenagers in a residential neighborhood.

MPD immediately relieved Rodgers of duty and placed him on administrative leave. Rodgers, who was assigned to Patrol, joined MPD in 2015.

Section 13A-6-69

Enticing child to enter vehicle, house, etc., for immoral purposes.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person with lascivious intent to entice, allure, persuade, or invite, or attempt to entice, allure, persuade, or invite, any child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, office, or other place for the purpose of proposing to such child the performance of an act of sexual intercourse or an act which constitutes the offense of sodomy or for the purpose of proposing the fondling or feeling of the sexual or genital parts of such child or the breast of such child, or for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault on such child, or for the purpose of proposing that such child fondle or feel the sexual or genital parts of such person.

(b) A violation of this section is a Class C felony.

(Acts 1967, No. 388, p. 976; Code 1975, §13-1-114; Act 2005-301, 1st Sp. Sess., §1.)