AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A county official in Maine pleaded no contest to charges of sexual assault of a female inmate and was sentenced to five months in jail.
The 60-year-old man who was a maintenance supervisor for Kennebec County was also sentenced to a fine and year-long suspended sentence on Thursday. One of the charges against him stipulated that he subjected a female inmate at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility to sexual touching in winter 2020, the Kennebec Journal reported.
The man had been supervising the woman as part of a jail program in which inmates do work for the county or other organizations.
The man’s lawyer said his client will serve his sentence at a jail where he has not had contact with inmates through his work. Kennebec County officials placed the man on suspension after he was arrested in February 2021.
