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 ladies.
Cristian Gondor, 57, who was employed as a deputy in January 2024, resigned Sept. 19, Denver Sheriff Division spokeswoman Daria Serna confirmed. The 2 ladies in March alleged that Gondor inappropriately touched incarcerated ladies, supplied to supply them with advantages if he might view them bare, watched ladies 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 data launched Friday for a second deputy who was suspended for six days after he failed to right away report the allegations in opposition to Gondor.
Gondor informed JHB the 2 ladies fabricated the allegations in opposition to 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 ladies’s tones.
“Generally 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 large mistake.”
Serna didn’t present extra details about the allegations in opposition to Gondor or the 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 data.
Gondor informed the Publish the allegations in opposition to him had been sustained and that he resigned as an alternative of being fired. Further data in regards to the inside 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 performed a felony 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 habits,” one sergeant reported, in accordance with the second deputy’s disciplinary data. Video additionally confirmed Gondor following a half-dressed lady as she left the bathe. The girl is seen attempting to cowl herself up after which exchanging phrases with the deputy in an obvious argument, in accordance with the disciplinary data.
Gondor mentioned the lady was upset that he insisted she bathe individually from one other inmate.
One of many ladies reported the allegations in opposition to Gondor to Deputy Ahmed Al Obaidi in late February throughout a middle-of-the-night dialog; he helped her fill out a grievance kind 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 inside investigators and mentioned the lady’s allegation was the primary time he had dealt with a grievance of sexual misconduct in opposition to 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 observe it going ahead, in accordance with the disciplinary data.
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