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Horry County

  • FILE - This booking photo provided by Horry County Sheriff's Office shows Jennifer Sahr. Sahr, accused of giving birth in South Carolina and then leaving the infant to die, has been arrested over a decade after the child, called Baby Boy Horry, was found dead near a state highway in 2008. (Horry County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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    'Baby Boy Horry's' mother is sentenced to 4 years in the death of an infant left beside a highway
    Associated Press
    A woman accused of abandoning her newborn infant in a box beside a South Carolina highway will serve four years in prison. Thursday's sentencing ends a case that had gone cold until police arrested Jennifer Sahr three years ago. Prosecutors blame her for the December 2008 death of the child known as "Baby Boy Horry." Sahr was a college student when the baby was left outside to die. Prosecutors say prison time sends a "strong message" in the case and is appropriate despite the "wonderful life" Sahr has lived since the baby was abandoned.
  • FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, responders congregate near where two people drowned the evening before when they were locked in a Horry County Sheriff's department transport van while crossing an overtopped bridge over the Little Pee Dee River on Highway 76, during rising floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Marion County, S.C. The estates of the South Carolina women who drowned filed lawsuits last week in Horry County alleging negligence by a company that created policies and procedures for the law enforcement agency. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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    Charges dropped against deputy after 2 died in flooded van
    Associated Press
    Criminal charges have been dropped against a former deputy who was helping to transport two mental health patients who drowned while locked in the back of a van that was driven into floodwaters caused by 2018's Hurricane Florence in South Carolina. The van's driver, former deputy Stephen Flood, was convicted in May of two counts of reckless homicide and is serving nine years in prison. But authorities decided to drop charges against Horry County Deputy Joshua Bishop, who was riding along and didn't realize until it was too late that Flood was risking their lives. The two women had been involuntarily committed for mental health care and were being transferred for treatment outside Horry County.
  • FILE - Responders congregate near where two people drowned the evening before when they were locked in a Horry County Sheriff's department transport van in Marion County, S.C. A deputy charged in the deaths ignored barricades and drove into rapidly rising floodwaters against advice from his supervisors and officials on the South Carolina highway, a prosecutor said Monday, May, 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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    Deputy stands trial after SC women drowned in police van
    Jeffrey Collins/Associated Press
    A prosecutor says a deputy in South Carolina charged in the deaths of two women who drowned in a locked police van in 2018 ignored barricades and drove into rapidly rising flood waters against advice from his supervisors. Former Horry County deputy Stephen Flood is on trial on two counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide for the drownings. He was taking the women to mental health facilities under a court order as rain from Hurricane Florence inundated eastern South Carolina. Flood's lawyer on Monday said his client is a scapegoat for supervisors who wanted him to take the shortest route and officials who let him drive around a barricade.