Gov/LE/prison: new gov business/incarceration method? sex slaves

[theinvisibleheart]

got the article/link from a buddy of mine who is in an agency in a different state. He told me that similar thing happened at his agency but kept all hushed up. Basically, the senior officer at his agency was getting the female inmates pregnant. Eventually, all the inmates gave birth and DNA test proved all the children were his. He resigned. I guess this is one of the hidden job perks.

--John



Link: http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/4/17/340752.html

Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves
Thursday, April 17, 2008
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) -- Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.

Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.

Burgess, the top officer in the county of 26,000 since 1994, appeared in court Wednesday was released after posting $50,000 bail.
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One prisoner alleged she became a jail trusty with more freedom after agreeing to perform a sex act on Burgess, but lost that status when she later refused.

Burgess also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury, and one count each of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping.

He could be sentenced to 467 years in prison if convicted on all counts, special prosecutor James Boring said, though a lesser sentence would be more likely.

No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated, Tidwell said.

"No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated, Tidwell said."

Last sentence is hard to believe. I have a feeling that a substantial number of people in the agency knew but kept quiet.