Post by WaTcHeR on Oct 19, 2006 10:15:16 GMT -5
10.19.2006 - WILBURTON, Okla. - Latimer County officials say 13 lawsuits by women who say former Sheriff Melvin Holly groped them or had sex with them while they were in jail are being settled.
Holly was convicted of sexually assaulting female prisoners and employees and is now serving a 25-year prison sentence in a Colorado.
The settlement is for 400-thousand-dollars and includes individual settlement amounts ranging from 25-hundred to 70-thousand-dollars. The county will pay by raising property taxes over a three year period.
The district attorney says larger amounts are for women who say Holly forced or coaxed them into having sex with him.
Three other former inmates have previously settled similar lawsuits for a combined 265-thousand-dollars while one lawsuit is still pending.
www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5560819
Holly was convicted of sexually assaulting female prisoners and employees and is now serving a 25-year prison sentence in a Colorado.
The settlement is for 400-thousand-dollars and includes individual settlement amounts ranging from 25-hundred to 70-thousand-dollars. The county will pay by raising property taxes over a three year period.
The district attorney says larger amounts are for women who say Holly forced or coaxed them into having sex with him.
Three other former inmates have previously settled similar lawsuits for a combined 265-thousand-dollars while one lawsuit is still pending.
www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5560819