A Denver Sheriff Department 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 Department spokeswoman Daria Serna confirmed. The two girls in March alleged that Gondor inappropriately touched incarcerated girls, supplied to offer them with advantages if he may view them bare, watched girls bathe and made inappropriate sexual feedback and jokes.
One girl alleged that Gondor got here to her bunk space, “placed his genitalia on her foot and made a groaning noise, followed 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 towards Gondor.
Gondor instructed The Denver Post 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 am not a pervert,” he mentioned, including that he instructed the soiled jokes as a result of he was making an attempt to match the incarcerated girls’s tones.
“Sometimes the girls, they accepted, they wanted some inappropriate jokes, that is my mistake, I spoke their language,” he mentioned. “They told me jokes about sex…and I talked back the jokes. That was one big mistake.”
Serna didn’t present extra details about the allegations towards 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 instructed the Post the allegations towards him had been sustained and that he resigned as an alternative of being fired. Additional data concerning the inside investigation into the allegations weren’t accessible 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 behavior,” one sergeant reported, in accordance with the second deputy’s disciplinary data. Video additionally confirmed Gondor following a half-dressed girl as she left the bathe. The girl is seen making an attempt 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 the ladies 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 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 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 observe it going ahead, in accordance with the disciplinary data.
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