OAKLAND — Two extra former correctional officers pleaded responsible Thursday to sexually abusing feminine inmates on the Federal Correctional Establishment in Dublin, prosecutors mentioned.
Jeffrey Wilson, 34, and Lawrence Gacad, 33, are the eighth and ninth ex-prison guards to have both pleaded responsible or been convicted at trial as a part of an ongoing probe into sexual abuse of inmates at FCI Dublin, in accordance with the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace.
As well as, Wilson admitted to mendacity to federal brokers about having sexual contact together with his sufferer.
Each males have been launched on bond. Wilson is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 6 and Gacad on Nov. 19.
Wilson was employed from July 2021 to September 2022 as a correctional officer on the jail, the place he served as a well being technician/paramedic, prosecutors mentioned. In that position, he was accountable for offering emergency evaluation and medical care to inmates.
In August 2021, Wilson started interacting with an inmate after she began taking remedy prescribed to her for seizures. He inspired her to switch from the jail to a camp the place there have been fewer medical personnel who would see their interactions.
Prosecutors mentioned Wilson admitted to partaking in sexual acts on a number of events with the sufferer. He additionally gave her a $60 pre-paid bank card and a cellphone whereas she was on the camp. She used the telephone to take bare footage of herself and ship them to Wilson.
Gacad labored as a correctional officer at FCI Dublin from July 2021 to June 2022. Between March and June 2022, he kissed and groped an inmate who lived in one of many housing models he was generally assigned to protect, in accordance with prosecutors.
He admitted to exchanging handwritten notes and emails with the sufferer, a few of which have been sexually specific.
Gacad resigned from the Bureau of Prisons after the abuse was found, however he continued to commerce emails with the sufferer and communicate along with her on video chats she had along with her mother and father.
On June 25, Wilson was charged with 5 counts of sexual abuse of a ward and one depend of constructing false statements, and Gacad was charged with one depend of abusive sexual contact.
Wilson faces a most sentence of 15 years in jail and a positive of $250,000 for every depend of sexual abuse of a ward and eight years in jail and a $250,000 positive for the depend of constructing false statements. Gacad, in the meantime, faces a most sentence of two years in jail and a $250,000 positive for the depend of abusive sexual contact.
“There’s zero tolerance for federal correctional officers who violate their positions of belief and authority,” U.S. Legal professional Craig Missakian mentioned in a press release. “And that’s very true the place they use these positions to sexually abuse people of their custody.”
“Our investigations stay ongoing,” he continued, “and we are going to proceed to work with our regulation enforcement companions to prosecute to the fullest extent of the regulation anybody who engages in these despicable acts.”
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