Robert Davis of Flowers Davis Law Firm in Tyler, Tx & Attorney for Falls County Sheriff Ricky Scaman

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Falls County Sheriff Ricky Scaman and his attorney Robert Davis spoke out Friday about a Texas Workforce Commission Civil rights complaint in which a former jailer and dispatcher alleges Scaman sexually assaulted her more than 20 times.

"I'm not going to stand by and be falsely accused of something. I'll fight to the bitter end," Scaman told KWTX Friday.

Former Falls County jailer Shirley Boger filed the discrimination complaint in late May with the workforce commission, claiming Scaman summoned her to his office over 20 times for sex.

"Anyone at any time can say anything about anybody and the big general consensus is it's believed. It's the craziest thing that I've ever seen. The allegations that she's put forward are extremely inaccurate and false," Scaman said during a two hour interview Friday.

Davis says the motive for the complaint is financial.

"You know basically these allegations stem from what I believe is a vivid imagination and a desire to try to hurt the sheriff and a desire to obtain money. The allegations are patently false," Davis said.

"You look at her history and her work history and the things that she's done, the relationships that she's had, the conversation she's had, the texts that she has sent, out the emails that she has sent out that we now have copies of. I think you'll find that she is certainly no shrinking violet,” Davis said.

Boger’s attorney, Scott James, rejected the claims of the sheriff and his attorney.

"We see it all the time in these type of cases,” he said Friday.

“It’s misdirection. Answer the allegations directly. If you say it never happened and you want to stand on that then will let the truth come out and will let ultimately the jurors to decide," he said.

Scaman is also named in a federal lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and discrimination filed by his former assistant chief deputy, Nanci Anderson, after mediation over a complaint she filed with the workforce commission in August 2017 didn’t produce a resolution.

She quit after less than six months on the job.

It’s not just Miss Boger it's also Miss Anderson and she's further down the road quite frankly in the process she's in federal court that this is not going away,” Davis said.

"Through this process the truth will come out. We don't file claims unless we believe that there's evidence to back it up,” he said.