A Denver Sheriff Division deputy resigned in lieu of termination in September after two inmates within the jail alleged he sexually harassed and assaulted incarcerated girls.
Cristian Gondor, 57, who was employed as a deputy in January 2024, resigned Sept. 19, Denver Sheriff Division spokeswoman Daria Serna confirmed. The 2 girls in March alleged that Gondor inappropriately touched incarcerated girls, provided to supply them with advantages if he might view them bare, watched girls bathe and made inappropriate sexual feedback and jokes.
One lady alleged that Gondor got here to her bunk space, “positioned his genitalia on her foot and made a groaning noise, adopted by smiling and winking at her,” in accordance with disciplinary information launched Friday for a second deputy who was suspended for six days after he failed to instantly report the allegations towards Gondor.
Gondor informed The Denver Put up the 2 girls fabricated the allegations towards him as retaliation after they had been sad with how he enforced the jail’s guidelines. He admitted to telling inappropriate sexual jokes however mentioned he by no means touched any inmates.
“I’m not a pervert,” he mentioned, including that he informed the soiled jokes as a result of he was attempting to match the incarcerated girls’s tones.
“Typically the ladies, they accepted, they wished some inappropriate jokes, that’s my mistake, I spoke their language,” he mentioned. “They informed me jokes about intercourse…and I talked again the jokes. That was one huge mistake.”
Serna didn’t present extra details about the allegations towards Gondor or the end result of the investigation into the alleged misconduct on Friday, however restricted particulars about Gondor’s case had been included within the second deputy’s disciplinary information.
Gondor informed the Put up the allegations towards him had been sustained and that he resigned as an alternative of being fired. Further information in regards to the inner investigation into the allegations weren’t obtainable Friday.
“I did nothing from these allegations,” Gondor mentioned.
Denver police declined to say whether or not the division carried out a legal investigation into Gondor, who has not been charged with any crimes.
Deputies who reviewed surveillance footage across the time of the ladies’s claims discovered Gondor demonstrating “questionable conduct,” one sergeant reported, in accordance with the second deputy’s disciplinary information. Video additionally confirmed Gondor following a half-dressed lady as she left the bathe. The lady is seen attempting to cowl herself up after which exchanging phrases with the deputy in an obvious argument, in accordance with the disciplinary information.
Gondor mentioned the lady was upset that he insisted she bathe individually from one other inmate.
One of many girls reported the allegations towards Gondor to Deputy Ahmed Al Obaidi in late February throughout a middle-of-the-night dialog; he helped her fill out a grievance type however didn’t instantly report the allegation to his supervisors as required by division coverage.
Al Obaidi, who was employed in February 2024, apologized to inner investigators and mentioned the lady’s allegation was the primary time he had dealt with a criticism of sexual misconduct towards a deputy. He mentioned he reviewed the division’s insurance policies round reporting such allegations — which requires such complaints to be instantly escalated — and would comply with it going ahead, in accordance with the disciplinary information.
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