{"id":167528,"date":"2026-03-18T18:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167528\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:49:46","slug":"brooklyn-mdc-correction-officer-arrested-for-sexually-abusing-inmate-in-chaplains-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167528\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn MDC correction officer arrested for sexually abusing inmate in chaplain\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A correction officer at Brooklyn\u2019s notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/06\/us\/metropolitan-detention-center-brooklyn-maduro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Metropolitan Detention Center;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Metropolitan Detention Center&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Metropolitan Detention Center<\/a> has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a male inmate \u2014 including one time in the prison chaplain\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">James Johnson allegedly sexually abused the inmate on multiple occasions, directing him to private areas of the jail where the officer forced him to perform oral sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson, 36, \u201cleveraged his position as a correctional officer to take advantage of a man he was supposed to be protecting in his capacity as a prison guard and used his access to gratify his own sexual desires,\u201d United States Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Concealed by a collection of stacked chairs at the chaplain\u2019s office, the officer also attempted to have intercourse with the \u201cJohn Doe\u201d inmate, but the victim refused, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjEoPGogqqTAxVWEVkFHXW_FD0QFnoECBgQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fusao-edny&amp;usg=AOvVaw3K_MgoBJvd_KRAH9XY7SX9&amp;opi=89978449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:officials said.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;officials said.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">officials said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another time, in a remote area in a rarely used suite of offices, the officer forced the inmate to perform oral sex again. Federal agents later recovered semen from the victim\u2019s prison jumpsuit, and after obtaining a search warrant, determined that the two samples matched, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said the abuse occurred last year and Johnson had denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to sex abuse, Johnson is charged with making false statements to federal law enforcement officers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A correction officer at Brooklyn\u2019s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,52436,14687,59486,11623,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-167528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-correction-officer","tag-inmate","tag-james-johnson","tag-metropolitan-detention-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}