Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES COMMITTED JAIL PRISON’

October 9, 2019
Chelcey Adami, Kate Cimini
The Californian
 
 
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office arrested another former deputy suspected of sex crimes involving a woman locked up at the jail where he worked.

Sheriff’s detectives arrested Brent Horger, 26, in Mendocino County on suspicion of two misdemeanor counts on sexual battery and one felony count of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, the sheriff’s office wrote in a social media post on Wednesday.

A $15,000 arrest warrant for Horger was issued out of Monterey County Superior Court

The sexual battery charges involve a victim who

July 31st 2019
Trevor Boyer, Leonard Greene
New York Daily News

A former lieutenant at Brooklyn’s federal jail was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing inmates.

Eugenio Perez, 49, was convicted last year on charges that he forced several women to perform oral sex on him while they were in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

“Jail is a horrible place, and this defendant made it all the more horrible for his victims in this case,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadia Shihata. “This was not a momentary lapse in judgment.

A federal appeals court issued a ruling earlier this month in a Texas case that helps explainwhy so many prison or jail inmates are sexually assaulted by their guards and why so little is doneabout it. It’s not just lax training and oversight within facilities. It’s not justpoor recruitment practices. It’s also layer upon layer of nearly insurmountable legalstandards crafted over time by judges and legislators to protect corrections officers, theirsupervisors, and, ultimately, local budgets.

Consider the case of Ezmerelda Rivera. In December 2014 she and her husband were arrested forpublic