Updated: Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010, 7:28 AM EST
Published : Sunday, 31 Jan 2010, 7:24 PM EST
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A TSA agent has been arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor after police say he tried to keep a girl as a sex slave. Police arrested 57-year-old Charles Bennett of Winter Garden on Friday. A 15-year-old girl was the one who reported him to police.
According to reports from the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Orange County Jail, the 15-year-old victim confided in her caregivers that Bennett had touched her inappropriately three years ago when she was 12. She says he also asked the young girl to be his "sex slave," an accusation investigators say Bennett admitted to in a written statement to police.
Reports say he also admitted to grabbing the girl's breasts from behind and soliciting her to be his sex partner. We went to Bennett's home in Winter Garden to talk with his wife about the allegations, she wasn't home. At this time, police are not saying what the relationship is between Bennett and this young girl.
On Bennett's MySpace page he calls himself "Master Charles" and says he's into submissive females and claims he is a master of bondage dominance sadism and masochism. Neighbors tell us they are stunned to learn about Bennett's arrest and his strange interests.
Neighbors tell Fox 35 Bennett is a former Marine Gunnery Sergeant who retired after 20 years of active service. Some even told us they wrote recommendations so he could get his current TSA job.
Bennett remains behind bars at the Orange County Jail. He's being held no bond. There's no word on whether or not Bennett will get to keep his TSA job.