A police sergeant working at a Florida juvenile detention center is now behind bars herself after she allegedly wrote practically a dozen inappropriate letters to a 16-year-old inmate.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Wednesday that Sgt. Katelyn Gomez, 27, is charged with one depend of solicitation of a kid to have interaction in an act that constitutes sexual battery by an individual in familial or custodial authority.
Gomez was hired by the sheriff’s office on Jan. 5 and labored as a sergeant on the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Middle in Clearwater.
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace Sgt. Katelyn Gomez, 27, was arrested Wednesday after authorities found inappropriate letters allegedly written by her within the mattress of a 16-year-old inmate. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Gomez’s alleged relationship with the teenage inmate was uncovered when detectives responded to a name from the detention facility reporting roughly ten inappropriate letters present in his mattress.
Whereas investigating the letters, detectives discovered they have been written by Gomez.
“The letters explicitly described what would take place during their first sexual encounter and described an ongoing relationship which had developed while the victim was incarcerated,” the sheriff’s workplace stated, including {that a} picture of Gomez was additionally discovered within the boy’s cell.
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Gomez, 27, had been assigned to the 16-year-old boy’s pod on the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Middle for 3 weeks. (Google Earth)
When she was interviewed by detectives, Gomez allegedly admitted to writing the letters and stated she and the boy started growing a relationship after they met a number of weeks in the past.
The sheriff’s workplace stated she had been assigned to the boy’s pod for the previous three weeks.
Gomez had been instructed to not be alone with an inmate, however workers on the facility informed the sheriff’s workplace she was alone with the boy “several times.”
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Gomez additionally informed detectives that “she fantasized about having a sexual relationship with the victim and deliberate to construct a life with him as soon as he was launched,” in response to the PCSO.
She was booked into the Pinellas County Jail.
