Six Corrections Officers Have Been Charged with Assaulting a Juvenile Inmate
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Ongoing Investigation Surrounding Inmate Assault at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
According to the AG, a Sergeant from Toms River is suspected of hitting the teen after he requested to be handcuffed, and five cops attempted to cover it up.
Six correctional police officers have been charged with assaulting a minor offender at a New Jersey prison.
The allegations come from a forced cell extraction at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Chesterfield Township on April 8, 2020, according to investigators. Six DOC officers assigned to the adolescent prison "apparently engaged in a forced cell extraction and produced fraudulent reports meant to fool others within the DOC into believing that the use of force was acceptable" shortly after midnight, according to the report.Sgt. Michael Emmert, 37, of Toms River is accused of spraying pepper spray on an inmate "without giving the victim any opportunity to cooperate, and despite the victim offering to be handcuffed," according to authorities. He's been charged with aggravated assault and tampering with evidence. His lawyer stated that he would contest the accusations and would enter a not guilty plea.
Senior correction officers Christopher Toth, Raymond Quinones, Michael Gaines, Mark Sadlowski, Jr., and Michael Ambrozaiti are also charged with tampering with records. Emmert faces the most serious charges, two counts of aggravated assault and tampering with records, while the others are charged with tampering, authorities said. Sadlowski's lawyer, Stuart Alterman, informed the Associated Press that his client was not guilty. Alterman is also a lawyer for the union that represents correctional officers, and he stated that the other officers indicted were likewise not guilty."This is a terrible sequence of events where senior correctional officers were trying to perform their job and defending themselves from a very dangerous offender," Alterman told the Associated Press.
According to state officials, the cops did not assist the detainees and did not report their actions.
