A suspended Detroit police officer accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a 12-year-old girl was bound over for trial Tuesday on two felony charges.

Earl Raynard Anderson Jr., 37, was ordered by Judge Suzanne Faunce of 37th District Court in Warren to face charges of accosting a child for immoral purposes and using a computer to commit a crime in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens, where the case will be resolved, according to Macomb County prosecutors. Both offenses are punishable by up to four years in prison, and the accosting charge requires sex offender registration, officials said.

The computer charge was added to the case by Faunce at the hearing upon request of Assistant Macomb Prosecutor Darrian Fortier, authorities said. Anderson was charged after a woman contacted police and alleged her 12-year-old daughter received sexually explicit text messages from Anderson on Feb. 22, Warren police said. The investigation revealed Anderson, who is the spouse of the victim’s mother, sent “numerous sexualized messages” to the child during late-night and early-morning hours, police said. The messages were then deleted by Anderson who allegedly instructed the victim to also delete the messages, authorities added.

Investigators recovered the deleted messages that corroborated the victim’s account of the events, police said. Anderson was arrested March 3 and is free after posting a $50,000 bond, which was reduced from an initial bond of $200,000, cash or surety. Attorney Brent Jaffe, representing Anderson, previously told The Macomb Daily his client is innocent. Anderson is scheduled for an April 21 arraignment in front of circuit Judge James Biernat Jr.