Former correctional officer hears from victims after years of abuse in prison

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A striking infinitesimal unfolded successful Madera tribunal connected Monday arsenic pistillate aft pistillate recounted the maltreatment they suffered astatine the hands of Gregory Rodriguez.

"You raped me," Nicole said. "You raped maine portion I was serving a beingness condemnation arsenic a juvenile offender."

Nicole is simply a erstwhile prisoner. Rodriguez was a correctional officer.

"You wore the uniform," Nicole said. "You had the keys, the power. You utilized it not to support but to prey."

Rodriguez is convicted of much than 60 counts of intersexual assault. He abused women for years astatine the Central California Women's Facility successful Chowchilla.

Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno says the assaults progressive astatine slightest 9 inmates.

"These women are convicted felons, but that doesn't marque them little deserving of dignity and little deserving of respect," Moreno said.

But Rodriguez's broadside rejected the victims' pain. His sister, Linda, called him "a large relation model" to her kids and questioned the victims' claims.

"Why spell backmost a 2nd and a 3rd time?" Linda. "They could've refused aft the archetypal time. I'm definite they shared with their cellmates what happened, and yet cipher other could verify their stories."

Rodriguez did not apologize for what helium did and alternatively branded the victims arsenic "inmates" and dismissed their accounts arsenic "stories."

Prosecutors are present pursuing the maximum condemnation of 224 years, arsenic Rodriguez asks for 56.

"Nobody should ever beryllium acrophobic for their bodily integrity, and these women, these victims, should not person had to endure what they endured," Moreno said. "And to effort to minimize that, it's egregious."

When Rodriguez returns to tribunal successful August, helium volition perceive from 2 different victims, who volition person the last connection earlier helium is sentenced.

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