Secret Service agent who guarded Biden held charged with sexually assaulting girl, 14

A Secret Service officer who guarded Vice President Joe Biden has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

Police said Hector Reynaldo Cuellar, of Woodbridge, Virginia, sexually assaulted a girl in his family several times between August and October, Fox News reported.

He was charged in Prince William County earlier this week with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child by a custodian.

Cuellar was being held without bond and no court date had been set.

Fox cited sources as saying that Cuellar, 51, was a uniformed division officer assigned to Biden's Washington, D.C. residence.

However, there was no mention of his employment with the Secret Service in the police report.

Further, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told FoxNews.com:

"We are aware of the arrest of this employee. He has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of judicial action." 

The Secret Service has been embroiled in several scandals in recent months, most prominently for allegedly cavorting with  prostitutes in Colombia before President Barack Obama’s visit there in April.

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The public was reminded of their fallibility during the presidential campaign, when an agent traveling with Republican Mitt Romney accidentally left her gun in the campaign plane's bathroom.

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Meanwhile, Secret Service agents have been accused of sexual abuse, domestic violence, being drunk on duty, publishing pornography and soliciting prostitutes, according to a log of allegations released by the Homeland Security Department in June.

Log entries reported by Bloomberg at the time included:

• a Secret Service employee saying that during a work trip another employee pushed her onto a bed, got on top of her and tried to engage in sex, despite her telling the agent "no" several times.
• an allegation that an agent forced a female acquaintance to have non-consensual sex with him at a hotel in Killeen, Texas.
• a description of a "detail leader" who appeared under the influence of alcohol when he was supposed to be protecting the president of the Dominican Republic during a 2005 US visit.
• the arrest in 2008 of an on-duty Secret Service officer in Washington, DC in a prostitution raid.