State Rep. Cecil Brockman resigns weeks after arrest, charges of child sex offenses

Name: State Rep. Cecil Brockman resigns weeks after arrest, charges of child sex offenses
Uploaded: 2025-10-31T21:59:14.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: North Carolina Rep. Cecil Brockman, who has represented High Point for a decade, faces two counts of statutory sex offense with a child and two additional counts of indecent liberties with a child. State lawmakers had called on him to resign.

North Carolina Rep. Cecil Brockman, who has represented High Point for a decade, faces two counts of statutory sex offense with a child and two additional counts of indecent liberties with a child. State lawmakers had called on him to resign.

Posted 10/31/2025, 9:59:14 PM Updated 10/31/2025, 10:00:06 PM

>> BREAKING NEWS FROM WRAL

COVERAGE. YOU CAN COUNT ON AND

LET'S GET BACK NOW TO BREAKING

NEWS. WE TOLD YOU OFF THE TOP

INVOLVING STATE REPRESENTATIVE

CECIL BROCKMAN. MOMENTS AGO, WE

TOLD YOU THAT HE HAS RESIGNED.

SO BROCKTON WAS ARRESTED

EARLIER THIS MONTH AND CHARGED

WITH CHILD CRIMES. WRAL, STATE

GOVERNMENT REPORTER PAUL SPACE

HERE IN STUDIO.

>> WITH WHAT HE LEARNED JUST

MOMENTS AGO AGAIN. SO FIRST OF

ALL, DO WE KNOW IF YOU ACTUALLY

>> POSTED BAIL AT THIS POINT?

AND HE RESIGNED FROM JAIL.

>> CECIL BROCKMAN HAS BEEN IN

JAIL. WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN IN

THIS CASE WAS BROCKMAN HAD TO

SIGN A PIECE OF PAPER WHICH WE

WE HAVE SHOWING HIS RESIGNATION

SAYING THAT HE RESIGNS FROM

OFFICE AND THEN REPRESENTATIVE

OF HIS HAD TO COME DOWN TO

RALEIGH AND TURN IT IN TO THE

CLERK OF THE STATE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES. NOW BEHIND

THE SCENES AS A SORT OF AN

ORDEAL. LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN

OFF GOING TO HALLOWEEN EVENTS,

BUT THEY CAME BACK TO ACCEPT

THIS LETTER AND PROCESS IT

TODAY. SO THAT HIS RESIGNATION

IS A MEDIA. SO YOU STILL IN

JAIL. HE IS STILL IN JAIL

RESORTING TO HIS GOT FLASH TO

THE LETTER UP THERE FOR A

SECOND. WHAT WOULD BE SAYING

THAT RESIGNATION LETTER?

WELL, HE SAID THAT HE WANTS

TO FOCUS ON DEFENDING HIMSELF

AGAINST THE ALLEGATIONS HE

FACES NUMBER OF A CHARGES WITH

CHILDREN AND HE WANTS TO DEFEND

HIMSELF AGAINST THOSE AND CAN'T

DO BOTH DEFEND HIMSELF AGAINST

THOSE CHARGES AND CONTINUE TO

REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OF HIGH

POINT IN THE STATE HOUSE.

AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE

WERE WORRIED ABOUT THAT.

AND THEY HAD CALLED ON HIM TO

RESIGN WEEKS AGO. SO WHY NOW?

>> WHAT WE SAW GOVERNOR JOSH

STEIN IS A DEMOCRAT CALLED HIM

TO RESIGN. WE STILL HOUSE

SPEAKER DESTIN HALL. HIS

REPUBLICAN CALLING HIM TO

RESIGN AMONG OTHERS. IT

HAPPENED TODAY JUST AFTER

SPEAKER HALL HAD CREATED A

COMMITTEE ASSEMBLED A COMMITTEE

FULL OF REPUBLICANS AND

DEMOCRATS TO REVIEW RODMAN'S

CHARGES. AND THEN POTENTIALLY

MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON

WHETHER OR NOT HE SHOULD BE

REMOVED. NOW, THIS HASN'T

HAPPENED A LOT IN NORTH

CAROLINA HISTORY, BUT IT DID

HAPPEN BACK IN 2008 WHERE MOST

OF THE HOUSE VOTED TO REMOVE

THOMAS RIGHT. SO THERE IS

PRECEDENT HERE AND IT LOOKED

LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO GO

FORWARD WITH THIS COMMITTEE.

SO QUICKLY, PAUL, WHO WILL

REPLACE HIM? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

RIGHT? ACCORDING TO STATE LAW,

THE PARTY OF THE REPRESENTATIVE

WHO RESIGNS GETS TO PICK HIS

REPLACEMENT IN THIS CASE THAT

WOULD BE MEMBERS OF THE

GUILFORD COUNTY DEMOCRATIC

PARTY AND A FEW DAYS THEY WILL

HOLD A PUB MEETING WHERE THEIR

MEMBERS WILL GET TO PICK AMONG

WHOEVER DECIDES TO RUN FOR THIS

SEATS THAT WILL NOMINATE THAT

PERSON. AND THEN GOVERNOR JOSH

STEIN WILL INSTALL THEM.

AND SO THAT'S HOW THE PROCESS

WILL GO NOW, THERE'S SOME

THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HAPPEN

BEHIND THE SCENES. OFFICIALS

HAVE TO POST TO THE MEETING,

MAKE SURE THAT ALL THEIR

MEMBERS CAN BE THERE AND LOG

IT. AND THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO

SEE CAN SHOW UP AND AND SORT

OF COME CAMPAIGN TO THE MEMBERS

OF THE GUILFORD COUNTY

DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ALL RIGHT.