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Female jail guard charged with sexual advance on inmate
A female corrections officer at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been arrested for making sexual advances toward an inmate and giving the woman a cell phone and other items, authorities said yesterday.
Susan Hollander, 51, of Saylorsburg, Pa., was charged with second-degree official misconduct and transfer of certain electronic devices in a correctional facility, and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, said Chief Dan Hurley, spokesman for the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office.
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She was processed and released Monday on $50,000 bail, with no 10 percent payment option, he said.
Hollander is currently suspended without pay from her position as a senior corrections officer, said Matthew Schuman, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. The 25-year veteran makes $77,274 a year, Schuman said.
The incidents occurred between May 1 and July 27 of this year, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Sgt. Kristen Larsen of the prosecutor's office.
The Special Investigations Division at Edna Mahan on July 26 told Larsen a cell phone was recovered from inside the Union Township facility, the affidavit says. The inmate, identified only as J. Doe in court papers, admitted she had hidden the device in her vaginal cavity.
The woman said Hollander gave her the phone. The officer liked her "in a sexual manner" and on one occasion, Hollander forcibly grabbed the inmate's vagina and tried to fondle the woman and kiss her, Larsen wrote. Hollander also gave her beauty products, food and money orders, the affidavit says.
An analysis of the confiscated phone's records showed numerous calls were made to Hollander's home and personal cell phones. The inmate said she and Hollander spoke on the phone. The confiscated device, identified as a Samsung pre-paid phone, also had a text message that was sent from Hollander's personal cell phone, Larsen wrote.
Hollander's arrest was the result of a joint investigation between the prosecutor's sex crime unit and the state Department of Corrections' Special Investigations Department.
"We enjoy an excellent working relationship with SID as they continue to police their own," Hurley said. "The majority of corrections officers perform their work in a professional and ethical manner."
A female corrections officer at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been arrested for making sexual advances toward an inmate and giving the woman a cell phone and other items, authorities said yesterday.
Susan Hollander, 51, of Saylorsburg, Pa., was charged with second-degree official misconduct and transfer of certain electronic devices in a correctional facility, and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, said Chief Dan Hurley, spokesman for the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office.
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She was processed and released Monday on $50,000 bail, with no 10 percent payment option, he said.
Hollander is currently suspended without pay from her position as a senior corrections officer, said Matthew Schuman, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. The 25-year veteran makes $77,274 a year, Schuman said.
The incidents occurred between May 1 and July 27 of this year, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Sgt. Kristen Larsen of the prosecutor's office.
The Special Investigations Division at Edna Mahan on July 26 told Larsen a cell phone was recovered from inside the Union Township facility, the affidavit says. The inmate, identified only as J. Doe in court papers, admitted she had hidden the device in her vaginal cavity.
The woman said Hollander gave her the phone. The officer liked her "in a sexual manner" and on one occasion, Hollander forcibly grabbed the inmate's vagina and tried to fondle the woman and kiss her, Larsen wrote. Hollander also gave her beauty products, food and money orders, the affidavit says.
An analysis of the confiscated phone's records showed numerous calls were made to Hollander's home and personal cell phones. The inmate said she and Hollander spoke on the phone. The confiscated device, identified as a Samsung pre-paid phone, also had a text message that was sent from Hollander's personal cell phone, Larsen wrote.
Hollander's arrest was the result of a joint investigation between the prosecutor's sex crime unit and the state Department of Corrections' Special Investigations Department.
"We enjoy an excellent working relationship with SID as they continue to police their own," Hurley said. "The majority of corrections officers perform their work in a professional and ethical manner."
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