In an extremely emotional five-paragraph handwritten letter addressing charges that he allegedly sexually abused a 15-year-old male teenager last summer, Cecil Brockman, former six-term Democratic NC House member from High Point wrote, “My life has already been ruined. The career and legacy that I have work (sic) so hard for, always trying to do the right thing taken in a instant because someone lied to me.”
In the November 4th missive, written prior to being released from jail on bail to the restricted custody of his mother, Brockman, 41, opined about the coming legal trials and tribulations he will soon be facing after being arrested in October on two counts of statutory rape, and two counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor under the age of 16.
“Why should I pay the ultimate price because someone wanted to grow up too fast? Why should I bare (sic) the entirety of consequence for another person’s lie?” Brockman rhetorically asked, before ultimately blaming the minor child he was allegedly involved with for most of his legal troubles.
“I keep trying to think of the red flags,” Brockman, who served in the NC House since 2015, wrote. “How I could have possibly known or figured it out. His father knew he was staying with me, a 41 year-old man and said nothing. When he came to me to stay with me in NC, his father knew and said nothing. He didn’t have or do any schoolwork. His best friend lived in another state with her boyfriend. He told me he was a legally consenting age and he looked the age he claimed. He was 6’1 muscular. And we met on an adult dating app.”…