Friday 28 August 2020

Hunter Corrective Services Employee Charged Over Inappropriate Relationship

BY IAN CROUCH

A Corrective Services employee who works at a gaol in the Hunter region is due to face court next month accused of having a sexual relationship with a former inmate.

In June, Detectives from Strike Force Canopus began investigating an alleged inappropriate relationship between a female employee and a 56-year-old man while he was an inmate at the gaol.

Officers arrested a 52-year-old woman at a Muswellbrook home on Thursday August 27, 2020.

The woman, who works as a Service and Programs Officer, has been charged with engage in relationship with inmate cause safety risk and engage in sexual conduct compromise sentence.

She's been granted strict conditional bail to face Muswellbrook Local Court on September 21.

Her employment has been suspended.


The woman was arrested at a Muswellbrook home Picture: NSW Police