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| Former corrections officer to stand trial for sex assault on inmates |
| By Canadian Press |
| Published: 06/28/2004 |
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A former Montgomery County corrections officer will stand trial on charges she had inappropriate contact with two inmates, but a judge dismissed a charge related to a third inmate last Tuesday. Judge Bernard A. Moore held two counts of institutional sexual assault for trial against Eileen Mayfield, 45, of Norristown. Moore did not elaborate on the reasons for his decision, which was based upon testimony he heard at a hearing last week. In dismissing one charge, Moore apparently agreed with defense lawyer Jeffrey Allen Sigman, who argued last week that the sexual activity alleged by one of the three inmates, 27-year-old Gene White, occurred before there was a law prohibiting such acts. The law making institutional sexual assault a crime was enacted Feb. 19, 1999. Sigman argued that White, who alleged Mayfield had oral sex with him, testified that he did not have sex with Mayfield in the month before he was placed in "the hole," or disciplinary segregation, at the jail on Feb. 26, 1999. Mayfield is charged with having inappropriate contact with two other inmates, Jasper DiSanto, 25, and Jason Mascione, 27. DiSanto claimed Mayfield rubbed up against him about six times in 1999, according to court documents. Mascione testified Mayfield flirted with him and fondled his buttocks while escorting him along a deserted hallway at the jail in October 2000. |
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