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Rikers Guard Admits To Raping Female Inmate, Doesn’t Get Jail Time
Rikers Guard Admits To Raping Female Inmate, Doesn’t Get Jail Time
Jose Cosme (left). Photo by Howard Simmons for New York Daily News

Rikers Guard Admits To Raping Female Inmate, Doesn’t Get Jail Time

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. Jose Cosme (left). Photo by Howard Simmons for New York Daily News

A former Rikers Island guard recently admitted to sexually assaulting a female inmate but will not serve any jail time.

Jose Cosme pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting Jacqueline Healy when the former was still a correction officer at Rikers Island. The assault occurred back on November 30, 2015, when Cosme ambushed Healy, an inmate at Rikers, inside a closet hidden from cameras.

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In a report from the New York Daily News, Healy said she was worried correction officials would not take her allegation seriously, so she mailed pieces of her soiled shirt with Cosme's DNA on it to a friend and to a relative.

Cosme, a nine-year Correction Department veteran, admitted he engaged in oral sex with Healy in court. Cosme was initially facing up to 50 years behind bars based on the initial rape charges filed last summer but after agreeing to a plea deal Cosme will instead be placed on probation for 10 years and is required to register as a sex offender. He was also fired from his job because of the assault.

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"We will prosecute any jail employee who undermines the public's trust and tarnishes the honest, hardworking employees of the Department of Correction," Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement.

Source: NYDailyNews.com