Melton said Hampton was asked by a fellow deputy if he would prefer to transport the alleged victim or another suspect — he chose the alleged victim. Melton said there were no others in the car.

In his testimony for the prosecution, Melton said the alleged victim filed a report about 4 p.m. Jan. 16 after arriving at the jail, where she said during her ride in Hampton’s squad car, the two began talking about sex. She said he pulled the car over on a rural Franklin County road.

“We will have to make this quick,” Melton testified that Hampton told the alleged victim before he allegedly assaulted her.

According to an information sheet filed earlier this month with the Franklin County Circuit Clerk, Hampton allegedly "committed the offense of criminal sexual assault, in that said defendant, knowing that (the victim) was unable to give knowing consent due to intoxication, committed an act of sexual penetration on (the victim), in that he placed his penis in the vagina of (the victim)."