A former prison guard gets 10 years behind bars for raping an inmate in the cell where she was isolated with COVID-19 at the federal jail in downtown L.A.
A former federal corrections officer was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for raping an inmate, who was severely ill with COVID-19 at the time, in her cell.
The inmate, identified in court filings as J.P., noticed a semen stain on her sheet after the rape. She cut off that part of the sheet and saved it until she felt safe to report the assault.“Had I not had that evidence, I wouldn’t have wasted my time reporting anything, because I would have known it would be his word against mine, and [Viera] was a sworn-in correction officer at the time, and I was just a criminally convicted felon,” she wrote in a six-page victim impact statement to the judge.
Viera’s attorney, Carlos N. Iriarte, requested a prison term of five years. He told the judge that Viera was a “mentally damaged individual,” scarred by three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq during nine years in the Army.
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