A former San Francisco sheriff\u2019s deputy was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of felony sexual assault for an alleged incident involving a transgender woman at a San Francisco county jail in September.<\/p>\n
Police officers placed 34-year-old Damon Jones under arrest for the alleged sexual assault, which purportedly took place on Sept. 11, 2025 at San Francisco\u2019s County Jail No. 2. Mission Local reported on the alleged incident<\/a> and Jones\u2019 firing in October 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police officers arrested Jones after District Attorney Brooke Jenkins filed charges. The DA also alleged that Jones dissuaded a witness from reporting the crime. Both those charges are felonies.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors\u2019 account, Jones told the victim to perform oral sex on him while she was in jail. After allegedly agreeing to do so, the victim saved ejaculate fluid in her mouth and later spat it in a plastic bag, which she gave to her attorney.<\/p>\n According to the district attorney\u2019s office, jail surveillance video shows Jones and the victim going into the jail\u2019s gym. From there, Jones then heads to a bathroom, and the victim follows him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Less than two minutes later, the victim comes out of the bathroom, pulls a plastic bag from her sock and spits in it. Jones then emerges from the restroom and returns the victim to her cell.<\/p>\n The victim\u2019s attorney subsequently transported the evidence to a crime lab, where the police department later retrieved it. A DNA test found the semen matched Jones\u2019, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Jones is the second San Francisco deputy arrested this week for alleged sexual misconduct. On Monday, the district attorney\u2019s office charged deputy Nanette Musto<\/a> with two misdemeanor charges for allegedly assaulting a female inmate last July. The two incidents and arrests are unrelated, according to a district attorney spokesperson.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors, Jones told the victim to keep quiet after the alleged September incident, and told her that no one would believe her if she spoke out.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jones also suggested that he would transfer the victim to a unit where she would feel less safe if she said anything, according to the prosecutors\u2019 account.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope that these investigations, that these charges that have been yielded in both of these recent cases send a message, however, to that staff that there is no tolerance for this type of conduct,\u201d said District Attorney Jenkins at a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe, as law enforcement, have the obligation to hold each other accountable when the law is broken and when the public\u2019s trust is violated,\u201d she said. \u201cMy hope is that we have sent the message that things should be different.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement, the public defender\u2019s office said it \u201c remains deeply concerned about the safety of our clients in the jail, particularly our cis and trans women clients, who were also subjected to an illegal mass strip search last year.\u201d Twenty women sued the city and the sheriff\u2019s department<\/a> last year, alleging they were strip searched en masse<\/a> while in jail and filmed by deputies, Mission Local reported.<\/p>\n