Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves

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Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves


Apr 17, 5:20 PM (ET)

ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.

Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.

Burgess, the top officer in the county of 26,000 since 1994, appeared in court Wednesday was released after posting $50,000 bail.

A message left at Burgess' home Thursday was not immediately returned.

Among other things, Burgess is accused of having sex with a female drug court participant who was in his custody. The crimes are to have occurred between October 2005 and April 2007.

A federal lawsuit filed in October claims Burgess told one drug court participant he would have her sent to prison if she didn't comply with his sexual demands.

The lawsuit, filed by 12 former inmates, alleges the sheriff's employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts.

One prisoner alleged she became a jail trusty with more freedom after agreeing to perform a sex act on Burgess, but lost that status when she later refused.

Burgess also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury, and one count each of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping.

He could be sentenced to 467 years in prison if convicted on all counts,

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080417/D903RVIG0.html
 
Damocles said:
Dayum! Definitely a good find. Well, now you know, uscit. Where is the one-liner generalizing about the party the man belongs to?
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Well I guess he ran as a Demoncrat, that is common in one party dominated counties. I grew up in one. but it is obvious that deep down in his heart he is a Republican :D
 
uscitizen said:
Well I guess he ran as a Demoncrat, that is common in one party dominated counties. I grew up in one. but it is obvious that deep down in his heart he is a Republican :D
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I think it is more likely that he is what he ran as. Most of the time the Rinos and Dinos are found out by the Party wonks in the county long before election day.
 
Damocles said:
I think it is more likely that he is what he ran as. Most of the time the Rinos and Dinos are found out by the Party wonks in the county long before election day.
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Yeah, like Gene Taylor, my liberal Democrat rep.

Things are run completely different in the south, Damo, and parties usually aren't nearly as fascist about discipline.
 
Watermark said:
Yeah, like Gene Taylor, my liberal Democrat rep.

Things are run completely different in the south, Damo, and parties usually aren't nearly as fascist about discipline.
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LOL.

OK, is more West than South. And "fascist" is totally differently applied. Believe me, I know what politics look like when one party runs a rural county. If you, say, changed parties to run, they'd send out letters to all the constituency informing them of exactly when it happened....
 
What is all the fuss about anyway? He was just blowing off steam with some college pranks.
After all they were anti-American since they had violated our laws.
 
Damocles said:
LOL.

OK, is more West than South. And "fascist" is totally differently applied. Believe me, I know what politics look like when one party runs a rural county. If you, say, changed parties to run, they'd send out letters to all the constituency informing them of exactly when it happened....
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Party discipline is almost absent from the south. Party leaders just don't have much control and don't use the control they have. Democrats know that if they kick that DINO off the ballot they'll never have a shot at that seat for another one hundred years. I'm not so sure about the Republicans.
 
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