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County Jail Sex Accusations Don't Get FBI Investigation
By peninsuladailynews.com
Published: 10/13/2010

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict said the FBI will not investigate allegations made in a federal study that said the Clallam County jail had a high rate of staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct because no victim has come forward.

"They consider it a closed matter," Benedict said.

"They essentially require a victim to investigate."

A $13 million Bureau of Justice Statistics report ranked the jail third out of 286 in the nation for highest per-capita instances of staff-on-inmate sexual victimization.

Four inmates out of 75 who took the survey in March 2009 reported staff-on-inmate sexual victimization.

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