Four Inmates Charged In Sexual Assault
October 26, 2017 at 5:29 p.m.
Four inmates are facing new charges after police allege they participated in the sexual assault of another inmate in the Kosciusko?County Jail.
Police say four inmates threatened a man into performing a sexual act on another man while in jail.
Prosecutors filed the charges Wednesday.
Timothy Freeman, 23, is facing charges of rape and intimidation. Danny Combs, 18, and Christopher Orr, 20, face charges of aiding a rape, criminal confinement and intimidation.
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Tyler Martin, 19, faces charges of aiding a rape and intimidation.
The event began Oct. 15 when police say Martin demanded everyone’s breakfast muffins. One inmate (the victim) refused, and Martin said he would take the inmate’s tray at lunch time.
Police allege Combs made the victim give his underwear to him under the threat of violence.
The victim said Combs, Martin and Freeman threatened to hurt him all day.
The victim said the men kicked him and hit him with a sandal for refusing to comply with their orders.
The victim said the men forced him to put his finger in Freeman’s rear, allegedly to retrieve drugs, or Orr would cover the security camera with toilet paper so they could beat him up, according to court records.
Jail staff checked surveillance cameras. The cameras showed Combs made the victim stand and shoved him toward Freeman. Orr got toilet paper to cover the camera, and Orr and Combs blocked the door to the holding cell to prevent the victim from leaving.
The victim says the men laughed about it later.
Orr told police that?Freeman, Combs and Martin had forced the victim to retrieve drugs from Freeman.
No drugs were found.
Freeman told police other people made the victim retrieve the drugs, but he didn’t.
Lt. Mike Mulligan, jail?commander, said he wasn’t aware of any affiliation between the four men other than they were housed in the same block.
“This is a pretty unusual case,” Mulligan said. He added assaults in jail happen but he hasn’t heard of anything like this.
Martin was transferred to the Indiana Department of Corrections two days after the incident. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August in connection with an armed robbery.
Mulligan said it’s normal for it take a couple of months for a prisoner to be transferred to IDOC.
The other three men remain incarcerated at Kosciusko County Jail.
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Four inmates are facing new charges after police allege they participated in the sexual assault of another inmate in the Kosciusko?County Jail.
Police say four inmates threatened a man into performing a sexual act on another man while in jail.
Prosecutors filed the charges Wednesday.
Timothy Freeman, 23, is facing charges of rape and intimidation. Danny Combs, 18, and Christopher Orr, 20, face charges of aiding a rape, criminal confinement and intimidation.
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Tyler Martin, 19, faces charges of aiding a rape and intimidation.
The event began Oct. 15 when police say Martin demanded everyone’s breakfast muffins. One inmate (the victim) refused, and Martin said he would take the inmate’s tray at lunch time.
Police allege Combs made the victim give his underwear to him under the threat of violence.
The victim said Combs, Martin and Freeman threatened to hurt him all day.
The victim said the men kicked him and hit him with a sandal for refusing to comply with their orders.
The victim said the men forced him to put his finger in Freeman’s rear, allegedly to retrieve drugs, or Orr would cover the security camera with toilet paper so they could beat him up, according to court records.
Jail staff checked surveillance cameras. The cameras showed Combs made the victim stand and shoved him toward Freeman. Orr got toilet paper to cover the camera, and Orr and Combs blocked the door to the holding cell to prevent the victim from leaving.
The victim says the men laughed about it later.
Orr told police that?Freeman, Combs and Martin had forced the victim to retrieve drugs from Freeman.
No drugs were found.
Freeman told police other people made the victim retrieve the drugs, but he didn’t.
Lt. Mike Mulligan, jail?commander, said he wasn’t aware of any affiliation between the four men other than they were housed in the same block.
“This is a pretty unusual case,” Mulligan said. He added assaults in jail happen but he hasn’t heard of anything like this.
Martin was transferred to the Indiana Department of Corrections two days after the incident. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August in connection with an armed robbery.
Mulligan said it’s normal for it take a couple of months for a prisoner to be transferred to IDOC.
The other three men remain incarcerated at Kosciusko County Jail.