Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Arrests Westminster Man On Child Cruelty Charges

(Seneca, SC)——————–The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man on an outstanding arrest warrants on charges of Child Cruelty last week. 52 year old Frank Edward McCurdy was charged after an investigation began in May of last year when an School Resource Officer at a school in the School District of Oconee County was contacted by the principal regarding a possible case of child abuse. The investigation was turned over to the Criminal Investigations Division of the Sheriff’s Office. An investigator obtained an arrest warrant charging McCurdy with whipping a child’s leg with a belt, leaving whelps and bruises and also providing false information about the child’s conduct and behavior record in school, according to the arrest warrant. 

McCurdy was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center by a deputy from the Warrants Division.