Female Rikers Island correction officer charged with rape, claims it was 'love'
A female corrections officer at Riker's Island has been charged with raping an inmate and conspiring to traffic marijuana into the jail for him.
A female corrections officer at Riker’s Island has been charged with raping an inmate and conspiring to traffic marijuana into the jail for him.
Nicole Bartley said that she thought she had fallen in love with the prisoner, who cannot legally consent to sex because of his prisoner status, and admitted to sleeping with him as well as agreeing to bring him pot. However, she said that she had been “duped” by her lover.
“I, Nicole, being a fool had my guard down to this man I thought (I) was falling in love with,” she said.
“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,” she said. “I used a condom. It was in the closet in the morning when everyone else was locked in. It only lasted five minutes.”
She was arrested on Saturday at her home, where investigators found 70 grams of marijuana, which she said she had intended to give to her lover. She was charged on Sunday.
She was released on $1,000 bail, and she now faces up to four years in prison for the third-degree rape charge against her.
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