HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - A corrections officer accused of having sex with an inmate at a county jail in southwest Ohio has been indicted on charges including sexual battery.
The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a Butler County grand jury indicted 28-year-old Nakisha Newell on two sexual battery counts. The Monroe woman also was indicted on one count of illegal conveyance into a detention facility for allegedly bringing a cellphone and electronic cigarettes into the Butler County Jail.
Newell’s attorney, Mike Allen, entered a not-guilty plea to the charges Tuesday on her behalf and told the judge she wasn’t a flight risk.
Allen said Newell was expected to be released on $5,000 bond.
Newell was arrested Nov. 27 and fired from the jail. She had worked there as a corrections officer for 18 months.
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Information from: MIDDLETOWN: Hamilton-Middletown Journal News , http://www.journal-news.com
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