Former female inmate sues over alleged sexual abuse at Santa Fe County jail
SANTA FE — A former Santa Fe County jail inmate is suing the jail, a jail guard, the jail warden and the Santa Fe County Commission, alleging that after the guard coerced her into performing sexual act in exchange for tobacco and other favorable treatment, according to a civil suit filed in Santa Fe District Court Friday.
The woman, who was being held at the jail after a attempted bank robbery conviction in Albuquerque federal court, claims jail guard Nicholas Baca constantly made sexual comments to her and she once performed a sex act on his in his office because she “believed that she needed to participate in the above-described sexual misconduct because she was scared of Baca’s position as a corrections officer.”
The suit says a criminal investigation was launched by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI and that Baca took a polygraph test as part of the investigation. The woman made a state Inspection of Public Records Act request for any police reports from the investigation, but the suit says that request was denied by the county records custodian.
“We’re hoping they release the polygraph results so we can find out what the results of the investigations were,” the woman’s attorney, Mark Jaffe, said Tuesday.
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