{"id":103580,"date":"2019-06-04T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103580"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:53:34","slug":"james-announces-sentencing-of-former-st-lawrence-county-correctional-facility-employee-who-engaged-in-sexual-misconduct-with-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103580","title":{"rendered":"James announces sentencing of former St. Lawrence County Correctional facility employee who engaged in sexual misconduct with inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attorney General Letitia James<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Parker sentenced to\u00a0four months in jail, 10 years\u2019 probation, and must register as a sex offender for life\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General Letitia James today announced that Jennifer\nParker, a former Kitchen Supervisor at the St. Lawrence County Correctional\nFacility in Canton, New York, was sentenced to four months of intermittent time\nin jail and ten years of probation, after admitting to engaging in sexual\nmisconduct with multiple inmates who were under her supervision and control,\nbetween 2011 and 2014. Today, Parker was also designated a Level 2 Sex\nOffender, which means she will have to register as a Sex Offender for life and\ncomply with all requirements of the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJennifer Parker broke the public\u2019s trust and put inmates\nand her colleagues in harm\u2019s way,\u201d said James. \u201cNew Yorkers put their faith in\nthose who operate our correctional facilities and ensure our safety, and this\nbehavior was a blatant violation of that faith and the law. Let this be a loud\nand clear message: no one is above the law.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker previously entered guilty pleas before the Honorable\nJerome J. Richards in St. Lawrence County Court on March 26, 2019, to two\ncounts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree in violation of Penal Law \u00a7\n130.40(1), a class \u201cE\u201d felony and one count of Official Misconduct in violation\nof Penal Law \u00a7 195.00(1), a class \u201cA\u201d misdemeanor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker was the Head Cook at the St. Lawrence County\nCorrectional Facility in Canton from August 2010 until her resignation in June\n2018. Parker\u2019s duties and responsibilities as Head Cook included managing and\nsupervising both civilian employees and inmates who worked in the kitchen.\nAccording to filed documents and statements made in court, Parker engaged in\nvarious sexual acts with multiple inmates who were committed to the care and\ncustody of the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility and worked for her in\nthe kitchen at the Correctional Facility, and who, by state law, are incapable of\nconsent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 26, 2019, Parker admitted that she engaged in oral\nsexual conduct with an inmate under her supervision and control between June\n2011 and July 2011. Parker further admitted that she engaged in oral sexual\nconduct with a second inmate under her supervision and control in or around May\n2012. Parker also admitted that between approximately February 2014 and March\n2014, with the intent to obtain a benefit, she forcibly touched a third inmate\nunder her supervision and control, constituting an unauthorized exercise of her\nofficial functions, knowing that such act was unauthorized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker appeared in court today before Judge Richards, who\nsentenced her to four months of intermittent time in jail and ten years of\nprobation. Following a SORA Hearing, Judge Richards designated Parker a Level 2\nSex Offender, which means she will have to register as a Sex Offender for life\nand comply with all requirements of SORA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s sentencing was the culmination of a joint\ninvestigation by the Attorney General\u2019s Office and the New York State Police,\nwhich resulted in Parker pleading guilty to three top counts of a sixteen-count\nindictment charging Parker with engaging in multiple acts of sexual misconduct\nrelating to three inmates, including three felony counts of Rape in the Third\nDegree, five felony counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree, one\nmisdemeanor count of Promoting Prison Contraband in the Second Degree, two\nmisdemeanor counts of Forcible Touching, and five misdemeanor counts of Official\nMisconduct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Attorney General thanks the New York State Police for\ntheir valuable assistance in this investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This case was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Mary\nGorman of the Public Integrity Bureau, with the assistance of Senior Analyst\nJoseph Conniff, under the supervision of Deputy Bureau Chief\nStacy Aronowitz. The Criminal Justice Division is led by Chief Deputy\nAttorney General Jos\u00e9 Maldonado. The investigation was handled by Investigator\nDavid Buske, with assistance from Investigator\nJoel Cordone of the Investigations Bureau, with additional support\nfrom Supervising Investigator Richard Doyle and Deputy Bureau Chief Antoine\nKaram. The Investigations Bureau is led by First Deputy Chief Investigator John\nReidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parker sentenced to\u00a0four months in jail, 10 years\u2019 probation, and must register as a sex offender for life\u00a0 Attorney General Letitia James today announced that Jennifer Parker, a former Kitchen Supervisor at the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility in Canton, New York, was sentenced to four months of intermittent time in jail and ten years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-state","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-qWE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James.jpg?fit=2832%2C4256&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}