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| Inmates testify in jail officer sex assault case |
| By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Published: 04/02/2004 |
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Five current and former female Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail inmates yesterday recounted incidents over the past two years in which they were pressured by male jail officers to expose themselves and engage in sexual activity. Brookline District Justice Charles McLaughlin ordered suspended jail officers Joseph Addison, 54, of Hazelwood, and DePaul Smith, 49, of the North Side, held for trial in Common Pleas Court at the conclusion of their preliminary hearings. Yesterday's hearings were the latest in a series of 11 cases filed against jail officers since January in an investigation by District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.'s office. Addison, among the first group charged in mid-January, was ordered held for trial on three counts of institutional sexual assault and two counts of criminal attempt. He faces another preliminary hearing April 15 on an additional charge of institutional sexual assault because the victim was not available to testify yesterday. Smith, the latest defendant who was charged Feb. 26, was ordered held for trial on one count of institutional sexual assault. The five female inmates who testified against Addison said he asked each of them to expose their breasts and vagina to him on various occasions. Sometimes Addison made the requests to the women individually and sometimes when they were together. Addison touched some of the women during the incidents, they testified. On each occasion, Addison promised to provide a cigarette to the women in exchange for them lifting up their tops or lowering the bottoms of their jail outfits, the women testified. Addison didn't always fulfill his end of the bargain, an inmate testified, saying that he promised to "take care" of her after she exposed herself to him "but he never did." The same problem occurred after an inmate performed oral sex and had intercourse with Smith, the inmate testified. After the sexual incident in a jail closet, Smith promised to give the inmate a cigarette, but he gave her a snack instead. McLaughlin rejected requests from Smith's defense attorney, Kim Riester, to dismiss the criminal complaint and to postpone the hearing while Riester appealed McLaughlin's decision to Common Pleas Court. |
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