Wayne Logan Arrested for Paying Mother to have Sex with her 8 Year Old Daughter (engaged to General Sessions TN Judge Joyce Broffit)
Sixty-year-old Wayne Logan was arrested in Memphis, TN for allegedly paying the mother of an 8 year old girl to have sex with the minor. Wayne Logan is Shelby County Sheriff’s Department employee and remains in jail. Think the story is bizarre? It get even more so.
Wayne Logan is engaged to Judge Joyce Broffit, General Sessions Judge.
Logan is engaged to General Sessions Judge Joyce Broffitt and records show he used her as a reference when he got his job in the Sheriff’s Department’s records and identification office. He is on paid leave from the department while the case is pending.
Police said Logan was charged with raping an eight-year-old girl after the child picked him out of a photo lineup. (My Eye Witness News)
So the suspect is not only an employee of the Sheriff’s Department, he is also involved in a relationship with a sitting judge. No conflict of interest there. Thus, because of the ties all of the General Session judges recused themselves from the case.
Wayne Logan appeared in court yesterday for his first hearing on child rape charges, but all the General Sessions court judges in Shelby County recused themselves.
Logan’s attorney, Leslie Ballin, says the General Sessions judges agreed it would be inappropriate for them to hear the case because his fiancé is a sitting General Sessions Court judge. (WMC-TV)
UPDATE: New Judge named in the Wayne Logan case.
Memphis, Tenn. (WHBQ) Former Rutherford County Judge Steven Davis has now been named to hear the case of Wayne Logan, the Shelby County worker accused of having sex with an eight-year old girl.
Shelby County Judges had asked for a visiting judge to be assigned because Logan has a relationship with Shelby County Judge Joyce Broffit.
Its is also being reported that a woman has come forward and has stated that Wayne Logan may have abused at least one more girl. However, there may be more.
The mother of the 8 year old girl is also being charged in the case and pimping her daughter to a 61 year old man.
Twenty-seven year-old Sharon Crawford is charged with accepting money in exchange for letting a man have sex with her little girl.
The story came to light when the 8 year old girl complained of pain to a teacher in school. This is just a shameful story and situation.
The police officer who arrested Crawford wrote that the 8 year-old girl first told her teacher about “pain between her legs”.
The report goes on to say “the 8 year-old victim advised the teacher that it was her mother’s friend. The victim also stated that this occurred several times and that when it does, her mother gets money. The 8 year-old victim further stated that she is made to perform oral and vaginal sex acts with her mother’s friend.” (My Eye Witness News)
This poor child. The mother and the jerk both need to be locked up forever. They are both worse than animals. Animals mothers try to protect there young.
Comment by Sam | January 18, 2007
This is so sad; this little girl’s life will never be normal. Wayne Logan is a sick, sick man and the mother is a sick, sick woman. No way in the world would I let anyone touch my child. What people will do for money? What was done here was not worth it at all, both of them need to be locked up and put on death row.
Comment by Donna Hodo | January 19, 2007
I am so sad for this baby! I was molested for years as a child. I try to be normal and now have kids of my own. I would go to prison if someone tried to hurt my kids!!! I pray for this baby. I pray God restores her. How sad! Is she with family or at least a GOOD foster family? She is going to need intensive therapy and Cruise Ship LOADS of LOVE! I pray that someone is taking EXCELLENT of this BABY! God bless her teacher for listening to her and responding accordingly. (I know it’s off subject but teachers are under paid and under appreciated!)
Comment by Nikki | March 26, 2007
GOD BLESS THESE LITTLE GIRLS. NO ONE EVER DESERVES TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS..THIS ANIMAL AND THE GIRLS’ MOTHER SHOULD HAVE TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR NATURAL LIVES’ IN PRISON FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THIS CHILD…
THIS IS HORRIBLE..
Comment by Michael | April 16, 2007