Indicted former DSS officials booked, reaction spreads across NC
MAY 19, 2020, BY KATE MARTIN AND FRANK TAYLOR
Cindy Palmer’s booking photo following her indictment Monday on multiple charges related to her conduct as head of the Cherokee County Department of Social Services through 2018. She was indicted along with two other former DSS officials. Photo courtesy of Cherokee County
MURPHY — Three current and former Cherokee County Department of Social Services employees indicted with more than three dozen felony and misdemeanor charges among them were booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center on Monday and Tuesday.
All are now free on an unsecured bond. Among them are Cindy Palmer, former DSS director and the wife of Cherokee County Sheriff Derrick Palmer; former Child Protective Unit supervisor David Hughes; and former DSS attorney Scott Lindsay.
The charges included dozens of felonies and misdemeanors related to a yearslong Cherokee County DSS practice that separated children from parents without the oversight of a judge.
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