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Three of the four men accused by US Rep. Nancy Mace of sexual misconduct during a 2025 House floor speech have been charged by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, according to a news release.
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After an investigation that took more than a year, John Osborne, Eric Bowman, and Patrick Bryant, Mace’s former fiancé, were charged with sexual related offenses, SLED said.
Osborne, 46, of Charleston, was charged with assault and battery and criminal sexual conduct. Bowman, 46, of Sullivan’s Island, was charged with voyeurism, obstruction of justice and publishing the name of a victim of criminal sexual conduct.
Bryant, 53, was charged with voyeurism.
All three men were taken to the Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston County. The case will be prosecuted by the 9th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, SLED said in a news release.
According to the warrants, a 23-year-old woman on Oct. 26, 2018, was so intoxicated she fell into the swimming pool at a Sullivan’s Island residence. She took off her clothes except for her bra, was unable to speak normally or cogently, and used a pillow to cover her lower body. She later passed out on a sofa in the house.
The three co-defendants discussed sexual exploits before agreeing that “Osborne would have sex with the victim.”
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In the warrants, Osborne is accused of unlawfully touching the private parts of a 23-year-old woman who did not consent. He also allegedly committed sexual battery by “digitally penetrating” and performing oral sex on the woman who was unable to consent to sexual activity after she consumed alcoholic beverages with the men, SLED said.
“A witness watching a home security video feed observed the incident and obtained and saved two still photographic images from the video feed,” the warrant said. “The witness also created an e-mail/journal entry detailing the incident from her perspective.”
The warrants say Bowman and Bryant viewed the woman’s naked body and the nonconsensual sexual battery and touching of the woman’s private parts “for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.”
SLED also accused Bowman of obstruction of justice after a phone the agency wanted to review underwent a factory reset on March 23, 2025, removing its data.
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This developing story will be updated.