Mystery jail officer nicknamed 'C.O. Champagne' is accused of raping female prisoners on Rikers Island.
Some of the two dozen women now accusing Officer Champaign of rape or sexual abuse said they never knew the alleged predator’s real nameHundreds of former Rikers Island inmates filed lawsuits against the New York City Department of Correction under the Adult Survivor’s Act last year, a law that opened the state’s civil courts to sex abuse claims previously barred by the statute of limitations.
In their first TV interview, Karen Klines and Tasha Beasley Carter, two of the women who say they were victims of “Officer Champagne,” told the NBC New York I-Team they want the Bronx District Attorney to file criminal charges against the man once known as “C.O. Champagne”. They both said they are willing to speak with prosecutors.“He didn’t just do it to me, he did it to other women. Women I didn’t even know,” Klines said.
In 2006, New York lifted its statute of limitations on Rape in the First Degree, a sexual offense that requires the perpetrator to use the threat of serious injury or death in order to sexually violate a victim. Klines told the I-Team that after suffering through one of the alleged sexual assaults, she reported the officer known as “Champagne” to Rikers Island brass, but she says her complaint was ignored.
Despite two dozen women all alleging very similar stories of sexual violence at the hands of the man known as “C.O. Champagne,” the union that represents New York City correction officers urged the public to withhold judgment.
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