Sex Offender or Public Servant?

[Jim Johnson]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_11593457

Prison secretary sentenced for affair
By Mike McPhee
The Denver Post
Posted: 01/30/2009 06:07:04 PM MST
Updated: 01/30/2009 06:08:12 PM MST

A female secretary working for the federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced Friday to 6 months in jail for having a four-month sexual affair with an inmate.

Janine Slingar, 47, of Wray, will also serve 5 years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender for having the affair with an inmate at Federal Prison Camp at Florence from July 2007 through October 2007.

Slingar, who had worked for the bureau for 14 years, was indicted by a federal grand jury last July and pleaded guilty last October.

She said she met the inmate in February 2007, when he was assigned to clean her office. The two had sex between 10 and 20 times in a staff restroom, according to her plea agreement. She also admitted taking graphic pictures of the male inmate with her cell-phone camera.

Authorities did not say in which prison the affair took place.

Mike McPhee: 303-954-1409 or mmcphee@denverpost.com

[doobie]

wait, was the inmate underage?

[dalebert]

That inmate is going to be traumatized for life.

[KBCraig]

wait, was the inmate underage?

"Incarcerated is incapacitated", in the eyes of the law. Anyone who is incarcerated doesn't have the capacity to give effective consent, just the same as a minor.

It's the same as many state laws that make a felony of any instance of teacher/student sex for K-12 students. Even if it's not the student's teacher, and even if the teacher is a 22 year old rookie, and the student is a 21 year old trying to finish a diploma.

[David]

It has something to do with the relationship between the two people, one had clear power over the other, so it makes it hard to claim complete and willing consent. 

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Mu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)