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A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States for raping an inmate while in transit. Rogeric Hankins, 37, assaulted the woman during a layover in a parking lot in Missouri.
In March 2020, according to prosecutors, Hankins was hired to transport the woman, who was in pretrial detention, from a prison in Olympia, Washington, to a prison in St. Paul, Minnesota. During a layover in Joplin, Missouri, he forced the woman into a restroom and raped her there, the US Department of Justice said Tuesday. A DNA test upon arrival in Minnesota confirmed the woman’s story.
As a private prisoner transporter with Inmate Services Corporation, Hankins was hired more often to transport inmates who needed to be transferred to another state.
“The defendant sexually assaulted and violently assaulted a woman in his care, abusing his position of power and depriving her of her constitutional right to bodily integrity,” said the agency’s Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke. Anti-Discrimination Department of Justice in a statement.
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