Kentucky Injury Lawyer Blog

Tuesday, a Floyd County grand jury indicted Charles Prater on a felony charge of first-degree rape. Prater, who until June 23, 2009, worked at a prison in Kentucky. It has been reported that at least four other employees at the prison have been charged with sexual abuse. It appears that at least one of the female inmates has filed a federal lawsuit after she was sexually abused and the officer was tried and convicted.

Attorney Brent T. Ackerson , believes that no person, even a person in prison, should ever be subjected to sexual assault or sexual abuse by a law enforcement officer. Ackerson says: “The victims here are primarily the person who was abused or assaulted, but also can be society as a whole and other law enforcement officers. Society is injured when these things happen as it is an abuse of the trust and authority we/society bestow in law enforcement. Law enforcement is injured as it is an abuse of the honorable reputation it tries to instill and live up to.”

Persons who have been sexually assaulted or sexually abused by police officers, whether it happened at a traffic stop or while in jail have legal rights and legal recourse. For more information on the legal rights of persons who have been victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault, email the law firm of Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones PLC .