Brickbat: Wrong Side of the Bars
New Jersey corrections officer Anthony Nelson has been charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact for assaulting two inmates he supervised on December 1. Nelson has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of his case. The assaults occurred at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, a state prison that houses and treats repetitive, compulsive sex offenders.
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One paragraph? That’s not much effort. It’s just getting sad.
You were wanting details about the sex?
SCROTUS wants the videos!!!
(I want them too, butt snot for me personally; for a good fiend of mine, actually.)
What part of "two counts of second-degree sexual assault" and "two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact" isn't clear to you guys?
After ~25 yrs. of marriage to Mrs. Casual, if date night doesn't end with at least two counts of fourth-degree sexual contact, neither one of us is happy.
It’s just weird. Reason isn’t exactly the police blotter. It feels like Oliver just cut and pasted a short paragraph for a local mews item and submitted it as a Reason article.
This rag has really declined in the last year. Which is really saying something after the decline of the previous decade.
If you love what you do...
Sounds like he was working in the right place.
Right place, wrong side of the bars.
"... suspended without pay...", WTF?!?! Twat does the New Jersey corrections officers' union have to say about this?!?!? Isn't this cruel and unusual punishment?!?!?
Unusual fer shoor...
"...repetitive, compulsive sex offenders" like offisa Anthony Nelson?