Ex-Florida deputy charged with neglect in school shooting freed on bond

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A former sheriff's deputy charged with felony child neglect for failing to enter a Florida high school building to intervene during a deadly mass shooting there last year posted bond and was freed from jail on Thursday following an initial court appearance. Scot Peterson, 56, who legal experts described as one of the nation's few law enforcement officers, if not the first, ever to be criminally prosecuted for failing to take some action, had been in custody since his arrest on Tuesday. During a brief hearing in Broward County Circuit Court, Judge Elizabeth Scherer agreed to lower Peterson's bond to $39,500, from an initial $102,000, and ordered him to turn over his passport within 48 hours, according to Kristi Grimm, a spokeswoman for the county State Attorney's Office.

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