Former correctional officer pleads guilty to sex abuse
February 9, 2021 GMT
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) A former West Virginia correctional officer has admitted to sexually abusing a female inmate, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell said.
Scott Douglas Born, 33, entered a guilty plea Monday to one count of sexual abuse of a ward, Powell said in a statement. He was a correctional officer at Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton’s Female Facility when the abuse occurred in 2018 and 2019, the statement said.
Born faces up to 15 years in prison. It wasn’t clear when he would be sentenced.
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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Another federal prison inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she repeatedly was sexually assaulted by a convicted and imprisoned former correctional officer.
Laura Mellor filed her complaint December 9 in the Northern District of Alabama’s Western Division against the federal government. She says correctional officer Adrian Stargell raped and sexually abused her for nearly two years while she was an inmate at an Alabama facility.
“Prison employees raping female inmates is a pervasive problem across the country,” said Charleston attorney L. Dante diTrapano, one of the lawyers representing Mellor. “The Federal Bureau of Prisons knew Stargell abused his power and control by sexually preying on the very people he is paid to protect and keep safe.