A female Rikers correction officer has been charged with raping an inmate. However, Nicole Bartley claims that she is actually the victim of the jig.
Oh.
Reports the New York Daily News:
A Rikers Island correction officer who said she had fallen in love with an inmate, was charged on Sunday with raping him and conspiring to traffic marijuana into the jail for her caged lovebird.
The probationary correction officer, Nicole Bartley, who was stationed at the George R. Vierno Center jail, said the inmate duped her into a romantic relationship and persuaded her to bring him marijuana, according to the criminal complaint.
Her transgressions were discovered Gunner, a drug sniffing Department of Investigations dog who was stationed at her facility’s front, alerted authorities to her. She is 26th corrections staffer to be arrested since the department launched its probe to uncover corruption at the jail in 2014, DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said in a statement released on Sunday.
Bartley, 30, told investigators the inmate — who cannot legally consent to sex because he is a prisoner — “played me for a fool.”
Bartley admitted to sleeping with the inmate and agree to smuggle weed into the facility for him.
She told authorities, “I was in love with him. He used me and played me for a fool. I had sex with him on one occasion in the jail a few days before Jan. 30. I used a condom. It was in the closet in the morning when everyone else was locked in. It only lasted five minutes.”
Surely, the inmate isn’t complaining.
Bartley in the Bronx on Saturday (Fe. 6) with reportedly 70 grams of marijuana, meant for her jail bird lover. She’s been released on $1,000 bail and is looking at four years in prison if convicted of the third-degree rape charge.
Think Bartley is a fan of Orange Is The New Black or nah?
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