Ilery Bonding Company slammed after accused serial rapist Bowen Turner violated house arrest 50 TIMES!
A South Carolina bond company responsible for monitoring Bowen Turner has now come under the scanner after it was revealed that the accused serial rapist violated the terms of his house arrest multiple times. Ilery Bonding Company in Orangeburg was providing GPS monitoring for the 19-year-old from August 2019 until last week, and South Carolina Victim Assistance Network has now filed a motion arguing that the company should be answering for its own failure in the case..
According to the motion filed on April 6, the company failed to report house arrest violations of Turner to Solicitor's Office or Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office within 24 hours, although it was required to do so under court orders. Sarah Ford, the legal director of the SCVAN, who represents the victims — Chloe Bess and Dallas Stoller — argued that the company should be held accountable.
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Turner was accused of sexually assaulting three teenage girls between 2018 and 2019 in Calhoun, Bamberg and Orangeburg counties. Up until last week, he faced charges in two of their cases, before he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree assault and battery and was sentenced to 5 years probation.
According to the court documents, at the time of attack on Bess, Turner was out on bond on charges connected to a separate sex attack on another woman named Dallas Stoller, who accused him of assaulting her in October 2018. But that charge was dropped, when she died by suicide last November. Third case is sealed due to Turner's juvenile status.
The motion filed on April 6 by the Victims' attorney argues that Turner escaped custody by leaving house arrest nearly 50 times — he allegedly visited multiple golf courses, shopped at sporting goods shops, went to a car dealership in Georgia, visited a steakhouse in Columbia and even went to visit the grave of victim Dallas Stoller. The court documents contend that the bond company's failure to report these violations is a "flagrant violation of the Court's order."
According to the court order, Turner was required to stay at home with a GPS monitor, with exceptions of meeting his attorney, for mental health appointments or medical emergencies. The court order also stated that a GPS monitoring company that did not follow the order could face criminal and civil penalties.
According to the motion, the bond company also violated victim's right, because the victims were not reasonably informed that the defendant had "escaped." The motion calls for the bond company to appear before a judge and explain why they shouldn't be held in contempt of court, as well as file a report of all GPS monitored cases. It calls for the bond company to suspend its GPS monitoring services and suggests the court to impose monetary sanctions against it.
Sarah Ford, the legal director of South Carolina Victim Assistance Network said the Circuit Court Judge Markley Dennis has refused to sign the motion and thus a hearing has not been set for the company to appear in the court. SCVAN is working on appealing this decision to make sure the bond company that's tasked with overseeing what defendants are doing is actually upholding its duties.