A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States for raping a detainee while in transit. Rogeric Hankins, 37, assaulted the woman during a stopover in a parking lot in Missouri.
In March 2020, according to prosecutors, Hankins was hired to transport the woman, who was on remand, from a prison in Olympia, Washington, to a prison in St. Paul, Minnesota. During a layover in Joplin, Missouri, he forced the woman into a restroom building and raped her there, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. A DNA test upon arrival in Minnesota confirmed the woman’s story.
As a private prisoner transporter with Inmate Services Corporation, Hankins was hired more often to transport inmates who needed to be transferred to another state.
“The defendant sexually assaulted and violently assaulted a woman in his care, abusing his position of power and depriving her of her constitutional right to physical integrity,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department. anti-discrimination agency in a statement.
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2023-07-12 00:45:36
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