Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves

[truthisfreedom]

Source: Yahoo/Associated Press



By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 42 minutes ago


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.

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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.
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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.
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No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated, Tidwell said.





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Ok, reconcile this for me... "sheriff's employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts"

and...

"No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated, Tidwell said."

And can someone find out if this guy is a rethug? Because this smells exactly like the pattern of thought and behavior being forced upon Americans and the world by bushco... those in authority can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and nobody can do a damned thing about it.

[Drum]

1. I think that your assessment is disgustingly accurate. nt

[Crabby Appleton]

2. Ex-Custer Co. Sheriff Mike Burgess is a Democrat.

http://www.state.ok.us/~elections/roster02.pdf

(page 32)

[kath]

3. That doesn't mean much - many Okies are registered as Dems for local/state elections, but always

vote Rethug on the national level.

[truthisfreedom]

7. ugh.

[Downtown Hound]

4. And people wonder where Abu Graib came from. n/t

[bow-tie]

5. The "Family Values" folks

along with Mormonon's in Texas.(sic intended)

[trashcanistanista]

6. I hope these women sue the town into

bankruptcy and press charges so that these morans end up behind bars for a very long time. Bastards.