FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Scot Peterson, the former sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., made his first court appearance on Wednesday on charges connected with failing to protect students during the mass shooting there on Feb. 14, 2018.

He appeared for a bond hearing in magistrates court in Fort Lauderdale via video link from the Broward County Jail.

The attack, one of the worst school shootings in United States history, left 17 students, teachers and staff members dead. An additional 17 people were wounded. In an unusual prosecution launched Tuesday, the authorities charged Mr. Peterson, 56, with seven counts of felony neglect of a child, culpable negligence and perjury.

The former deputy, who was the only armed guard on campus but retreated to a position of safety during the attack, was found to have done “absolutely nothing to mitigate” the carnage, according to law enforcement officials following an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

He was booked into the county jail on a bond of $102,000, and appeared from there at Wednesday’s bond hearing wearing a beige jail uniform, showing no sign of emotion.

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