A former lieutenant at Brooklyn’s federal jail was convicted on Monday of sexually assaulting five female inmates, bringing a close to a yearlong prosecution that involved two other guards at the jail and exposed a pattern of abuse at the facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center. After three days of deliberation, a jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn issued a guilty verdict against the latest defendant, Eugenio Perez, 47. Mr. Perez was charged in May 2017 with forcing five female inmates at what is known as the M.D.C. to perform oral sex on him. The attacks took place, prosecutors said, in the lieutenant’s office on the second floor of the jail, where Mr. Perez was able to monitor security cameras to avoid being caught. Mr. Perez would request that the women — all of whom testified under aliases at his trial — be placed on work details to clean the lieutenant’s office.

Source: New York Times May 14, 2018 20:40 UTC