A Gillette, Wyoming, man who tried to get a job as a detention officer at the Campbell County jail is now incarcerated in the jail where he’d hoped to work.
That’s because during a pre-employment polygraph, he confessed to molesting children, court documents allege.
In a case that rose to the Campbell County District Court on Friday, Bradley Robert Hudson II is charged with 25 felony-level sex charges: 12 of which are punishable by up to 15 years in prison and $10,000 in fines each, and 13 of which are punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines each.
Hudson, 19, was applying to work as a detention officer for the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds confirmed Monday to Cowboy State Daily.
On Feb. 17 when Hudson was taking a pre-employment polygraph test, he had four more steps to fulfill in his job application process, Reynolds said.
Licensed polygraph examiner Mike Walsh conducted the test that afternoon, during which he asked Hudson about any crimes he had committed.
When he was younger than 10, Hudson had engaged in sexual play with other children, Hudson told Walsh, according to an evidentiary affidavit filed in the case.
When he was about 13, Hudson would watch pornography on his mother’s phone, he added, according to the affidavit.
“He said he was deeply into sex,” Walsh wrote. “He denied ever intentionally seeing child pornography.”
Hudson allegedly admitted to having prolonged phases in which he’d have prepubescent children manually stimulate his genitalia, and in which he’d digitally penetrate theirs, the affidavit says.
Walsh developed “serious concerns” about letting Hudson be out in the world in places he could access children after that polygraph, so the evaluator spoke with Campbell County Sheriff’s Officer Investigator Justin Cody, says the document.
This Time, An Interview
Cody interviewed Hudson that same afternoon at about 5, then again the next morning at 9 after telling him of his Miranda rights.
The affidavit says Hudson gave the same confessions to Cody has he’d given to Walsh, but in greater detail. At one point, Hudson was 18 and allegedly admitted to having had a roughly kindergarten-age child touch his genitalia, the document relates.
Cody asked other deputies to arrest Hudson and take him to the detention center.
Total Shock
Hudson had already completed his typing test, physical fitness test and a written test as part of the hiring process as of the time of his arrest, Campbell County Sheriff Scott Matheny told Cowboy State Daily on Monday.
Reynolds said he’d heard of pre-employment polygraphs weeding out alleged criminals in the past, but nothing like that has happened in his tenure.
“It was a total shock to us, obviously,” said Reynolds.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
