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Eight women found dead after ‘police sex trafficked them to male inmates’

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At least half a dozen women told authorities that deputies raped and trafficked them to male inmates inside a long-troubled jail in southwestern Louisiana, according to newly unearthed state and FBI records.

The records offer a harrowing account of sexual assault being traded as currency in a contraband ring that pervaded the Jefferson Davis Parish jail.

Three deputies were charged in the 2002 corruption case. One of them remains a small-town police officer in Louisiana, The Associated Press found.

The little-known case has drawn new attention and is highlighted in a Showtime docuseries examining the so-called Jeff Davis 8, a series of eight possibly related killings that remain unsolved despite the decade-long efforts of a local, state and federal task force.

The victims, ranging in age from 17 to 30, were killed between 2005 and 2009 in and around Jennings, Louisiana, a small town in Louisiana’s Cajun country.

The records show the last Jeff Davis 8 victim, Necole Jean Guillory, had been a witness in the 2002 jail case.

The five-part documentary, Murder in the Bayou, features footage of Guillory telling investigators about rampant misconduct inside the lockup.

The series finale, which aired in the US on Friday, revealed that Guillory told her mother shortly before her death that she believed local law enforcement had a hand in the slayings.

The Jefferson Davis Parish jail has seen more recent cases of misconduct, including this summer when two deputies were fired there for their role in a brutal beating that reportedly left an inmate with black eyes and second-degree burns.

Chief Deputy Chris Ivey said authorities recently transferred local inmates into a new facility that is more secure than the old parish jail, which was poorly lit and had spotty surveillance cameras.

He told AP none of the deputies accused of misconduct would be given badges by the current administration.

“They wouldn’t be working for us,” he said.

The newly released records, obtained by Showtime and reviewed by AP, show “a pattern and practice of sexual assault by guards at the Jefferson Davis Parish Jail stretching back nearly two decades”, said Ethan Brown, an executive producer of the series.

Necole Jean Guillory was one of eight women who told authorities she was raped and trafficked to male inmates inside a rural Louisiana jail before she was found dead. Source: Jefferson Davis Parish/The Advocate via AP
Necole Jean Guillory was one of eight women who told authorities she was raped and trafficked to male inmates. Source: Jefferson Davis Parish/The Advocate via AP

Guillory had been “aware of significant law enforcement misconduct” before she was found dead years later in a patch of grass along Interstate 10 in Acadia Parish, Mr Brown said.

“She was the most insistent of the victims that the police were behind the killings,” he told AP.

Mr Brown, in his book about the Jeff Davis 8, wrote that Guillory knew most of the other slain women through their involvement in sex work and long feared for her safety.

Guillory’s death remains a mystery. But the records show that she and several other women made detailed allegations about sexual misconduct involving deputies and inmates at the parish jail.

The FBI interviewed at least one woman who said she had been raped, the records show, but no federal charges were filed.

Newly released records show a half-dozen women told authorities they were raped and trafficked to male inmates inside a rural Louisiana jail. The 2002 case is featured in a Showtime documentary, “Murder in the Bayou” examines the unsolved killings of eight women known as the Jeff Davis 8. Source: ShowTime / YouTube
Showtime documentary, “Murder in the Bayou” examines the unsolved killings of eight women known as the Jeff Davis 8. Source: ShowTime / YouTube

Former Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards said at the time that two deputies had been arrested for taking bribes to arrange sex between inmates. He said one had sex with a female inmate, while a third deputy was fired for smuggling contraband into the jail.

What the sheriff did not say was that at least half a dozen women had accused deputies of running a jailhouse sex-trafficking ring in which female inmates were repeatedly coerced into having sex with male inmates and trustees.

One woman told authorities she was forced to have sex with a deputy, Eric M. Phillips, and that nothing came of her repeated complaints to jail staff, the records show. The Associated Press does not identify people who may have been sexually assaulted unless they have come forward and voluntarily identify themselves.

“I just want it stopped because it’s not right,” the woman told sheriff’s investigators.

Detectives took similar statements from several other women, including one who spent just a week in the jail. She told authorities she had been wrested from her bunk one night by an “unidentified assailant” who covered her mouth and, while removing her pants, told her to “give it up”, the records show.

She said she noticed Phillips, the jailer, watching the assault from the hallway.

Newly released records show a half-dozen women told authorities they were raped and trafficked to male inmates inside a rural Louisiana jail. The 2002 case is featured in a Showtime documentary, “Murder in the Bayou” examines the unsolved killings of eight women known as the Jeff Davis 8. Source: ShowTime / YouTube
Newly released records show half a dozen women told authorities they were raped and trafficked to male inmates inside a rural Louisiana jail. Source: ShowTime / YouTube

Still another woman said Phillips raped her after removing her from her cell under the pretense that she needed to see the jail nurse about her medicine.

“I wrote a letter to my mother describing what had happened to me,” she wrote in a statement to authorities.

“But for some reason my mother never received the letter.”

Investigators also interviewed Guillory, then 19, who described a state of near anarchy in the jail. She told investigators she also had sex with Phillips, according to the records. Deputies are forbidden under state and federal law from having sexual contact with inmates.

“You can’t get out of your cell, but you’re still doing everything you’re doing when you’re at home,” Guillory told authorities.

She added that deputies routinely sold cigarettes, drugs and other contraband to inmates.

Phillips later pleaded no contest to malfeasance in office, a felony, and was sentenced to a year in prison. He was not charged with sexual assault.

Phillips this week said he knew nothing about the rape allegations. His brother later telephoned the AP to say Phillips, despite having served in law enforcement, was “ignorant when it comes to the law”.

He said Phillips regrets pleading no contest in the case and did so only at the advice of his lawyer.

Another deputy fired in the scandal, Allarate “A.J.” Frank, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour count of criminal mischief. He later worked more than 10 years for the Eunice Police Department despite his conviction and recently ran for police chief of that city. He remains a police officer in the neighbouring town of Basile.

Frank declined to comment. His lawyer, former Louisiana lawmaker Elbert Guillory, said the misconduct that could be proved against Frank amounted to a “very, very minor matter”.

Edwards, the former sheriff, did not return messages seeking comment. His lawyers suggested in a 2004 court filing that the female inmates may have “willingly” participated in some of the crimes in his jail.

The Sheriff’s Office later settled at least two federal lawsuits stemming from the alleged rapes.

Source: https://au.yahoo.com/news/jeff-davis-8-women-raped-trafficked-in-prison-before-being-found-dead-104858232.html

7 thoughts on “Eight women found dead after ‘police sex trafficked them to male inmates’

  1. 1. Jennings puts a curse on you …. so it’s the energy of the location – land mass ??
    2. The girls didn’t deserve what they got … they were not putting themselves at risk/ talking to strangers/courting death ??
    3. There were definite concrete connections between all of them …
    4.It had to be somebody they trusted … somebody or somebodies they trusted/why/why not strangers in the night, exchanging glances ??
    5.It was all about drugs & sex … Looking For Mr. Good Bar /not love ??
    6. How can you not have any evidence …there are bodies, aren’t they the evidence ??
    8. These girls hears something, knew something, seen something, that they was not supposed to know … organised crime & therefore they were killed execution style/corporate corruption & therefore silenced ??
    9. Could be a serial killer … or killers/2 or more thrill killers at play ?/
    10. There is no serial killer … speculation/heard rumor/concrete knowledge on her part/does she know something & therefore is she next or a party to the crimes ??
    11. They can kill in this town & get away with it cause this is the Devils Playground & they’re running right along with him … is it a False Flag/the towns folk wishing to be infamous/ a Sunday picnic gone wrong/an Occult group at worship & is this woman a potential target or a participant, befor, during or after the act ??

    Let’s break for a song here – Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison.

  2. Killings since 2005 – 2009 –
    These 8 killings – along with 9 other unsolved murders in the area since the first body was discovered
    Most of the 8 murder victims participated in at risk behavior.
    But in fact there are 17 bodies, why are the other nine deaths considered separate ??
    Are they also all female or are there male bodies also ??
    Is it too simple a story to say that the girls were trafficked by cops & then turned up dead.
    Were these girls willingly participating in a sex, drugs racket & that this is how they earned their money ??
    Who were the other 9 persons killed & were they connected with these 8 killings is a matter I feel to be most important.
    “Why not just make the story as girls cops prostitution & drugs – lowlife & no one will be that interested” is that the game plan/the cover story ??
    Where was officialdom in all of their ??
    The political arena * the upstanding male citizenry of this community ??
    And hen of course all thsi was going on in their absence ??
    Not likely.

    Patterns in killings ….
    .Victim NO: 3 Christin Lopez was badly beaten to death & dumped in a canal.

    1. Where would inmates of a prison in hicksville … GET THE MONEY TO PAY FOR SEX ??
      Incarcerated persons in Louisiana earn a daily wage of approx: $ 3.45.
      What bi of a blow job could an incarcerated male in a Louisiana prison afford on that kind of a wage ??
      I suggest that the part of this cover story that suggests that cops were selling sex to inmates is a fabrication.

        1. In looking at the incarceration statistics of Louisiana, it is very clear that SLAVERY is the biggest employer ibn Louisiana.
          as most of the population is in prison & even several thousands of persons held without charges.
          Naturally the prison population is predominantly made up of coloured persons.

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