Ex-deputy pleads responsible in sexual assault of inmates, will not face jail

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy arrested in 2022 on suspicion of sexually assaulting two feminine inmates will face no jail time after pleading responsible to 3 misdemeanor costs Wednesday.

Arcadio Rodriguez is required to register as a intercourse offender for not less than 10 years and is below a one-year formal probation, in line with the Orange County district lawyer’s workplace. The Stanton resident was sentenced to 364 days of time already served below residence confinement.

“Inmates are utterly depending on sheriff’s deputies and different jail workers for every little thing from meals and drugs to clothes,” Dist. Atty. Todd Spizer mentioned in a press release. “These ladies have been awaiting trial and had no method of escaping a predator who actually held the keys to their captivity and ordered them to carry out at his each whim.”

A consultant for Rodriguez couldn’t be reached.

Rodriguez was charged with one rely of sexual battery, one rely of a detention facility worker participating in sexual exercise with a confined consenting grownup and one rely of possession of a cellphone in a correctional facility.

All three have been misdemeanors.

Spitzer famous that California legislation solely permits prosecutors to cost a misdemeanor as a result of the assault was over the garments and never skin-to-skin.

Spitzer mentioned he was “aggressively searching for a change” in state legislation for harsher penalties.

Rodriguez is accused of touching two feminine inmates over their garments and exhibiting them pornographic movies whereas he labored they usually have been incarcerated at Theo Lacy most safety jail advanced in Orange.

Authorities imagine the assaults started in Might 2022.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Division mentioned it turned conscious of potential wrongdoing on Aug. 8, 2022, when it intercepted a communication that laid out the misconduct.

Rodriguez was positioned on administrative depart Aug. 9 and arrested Aug. 12 and booked into Santa Ana Jail that day.