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| Five more Pa. jail officers ordered to stand trial |
| By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Published: 03/25/2004 |
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A Brookline district justice yesterday ordered five more Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail officers to stand trial on charges that they had sex with female inmates. District Justice Charles McLaughlin issued the order after hearing three hours of X-rated testimony from women who described in detail their alleged sexual encounters with the male officers. A total of 11 officers have been charged with institutional sexual assault in the ongoing investigation. Under state law, jail and prison officers can be sentenced to prison themselves for having sex with inmates, even if it's consensual. Ordered yesterday to stand trial were Darren Hill, Charles Miller, Roy Baldinger, Donald Stupka and William Woznichak. McLaughlin last month ordered another officer, LaShawn Walker, to face trial. Two others, John Pastor and George DiDomenicus, waived their right to a preliminary hearing, choosing to go straight to trial. Three others are scheduled to appear before McLaughlin on April 1. During yesterday's hearing, one of the officers' accusers told McLaughlin that she never told authorities about having sex in the jail until she heard that other women had spoken to district attorney's investigators. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not identify accusers or victims in sex crimes. |
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