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| 2008-04-18 | |
| ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) — Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma Democrat 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 Democrat 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. Among other things, Burgess (D) 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 (D) 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 Democrat 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 [sic] with more freedom after agreeing to perform a sex act on Burgess (D), but lost that status when she later refused. Burgess (D) 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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