New York: Two Female Guards Impregnated by Prisoners, then Charged with Rape and Arrested
New York: Two Female Guards Impregnated by Prisoners, then Charged with Rape and Arrested
In February 2013, two female prison guards in New York State were arrested and charged with rape after it was discovered that they had become pregnant as a result of sexual relationships with prisoners at the correctional facilities where they worked.
The rape charges arose because, in New York, as in other states, a prisoner cannot legally consent to having sex.
In one case, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports that 39-year-old Tyshinia Love Brewster was charged with third-degree rape, a felony, and official misconduct, a misdemeanor. Believed to be six months pregnant, Brewster had reportedly been sexually involved with a prisoner at the Downtown Correctional Facility in Fishkill since 2010.
The unnamed prisoner was transferred to another facility after evidence of his illicit relationship with Brewster surfaced.
Brewster had worked at the Fishkill facility for over seven years. After being assigned, she was released on her own recognizance.
Two weeks earlier, 29-year-old Nancy Gonzalez, a New York City prison guard, had been charged with rape after she allegedly became pregnant by Ronell Wilson, a notorious cop killer.
Gonzalez, who worked at the Metropolitan Detention Center, was reportedly eight months pregnant when she was taken into custody at her Long Island home.
In a bizarre twist, Gonzalez indicated that she got involved with Wilson in an effort to keep him from being executed.
Wilson had been sentenced to death for the killing of two undercover officers, Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin, in what was described by the Daily Mail Reporter as “an illegal drug sting gone awry.” Yet his sentence was overturned by an appeals court in 2010, long before the affair with Gonzalez apparently began.
Said Gonzalez, according to court documents, “I took a chance because I was vulnerable and wanted to be loved and now I am carrying [Wilson’s] child.”
That “chance” could cost Gonzalez dearly. If convicted, she faces a possible prison sentence of 15 years.
Sources: New York Post, Feb. 20, 2013; Daily Mail Reporter, Feb. 21, 2013; Charles Poladian, IBTimes, Feb. 21, 2013.
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