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| Officer, inmate get probation in sex case |
| By AP |
| Published: 04/25/2005 |
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A former Nevada state prison inmate and the former officer who fathered her child have been sentenced to probation by a judge who decided the relationship was consensual. Clark County District Court Judge Donald Mosley said last Tuesday that love notes and photos Korinda Martin, 25, gave to Randy Easter, 46, showed she was not a victim. Martin maintains she was forced into sex by Easter when she became pregnant in 2003 at the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center in North Las Vegas. Easter pleaded guilty in January to voluntary sexual conduct with a prisoner, a felony. Martin pleaded the equivalent of no contest to conspiracy to commit a crime, a gross misdemeanor. The two had been indicted on one count each of voluntary sexual conduct between an inmate and another person. The judge sentenced Easter to one to three years in prison, but suspended the sentence and placed Easter on probation for up to three years. Martin, who is serving a sentence in an unrelated robbery and coercion case, was given probation and a one-year suspended sentence. DNA testing on Martin's baby boy confirmed Easter was the father. Martin has said the baby was being cared for by her mother. Martin has filed a federal lawsuit against Easter and Corrections Corporation of America, which ran the women's prison until the state took control last October. Martin's lawyer, Scott Olifant, said last Tuesday that Martin could not have consented to sex because of Easter's position of authority. Easter said he wants to one day be a father to the boy he has yet to see. |
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