Five city Department of Correction officers have been convicted of illegally strip-searching visitors to the Manhattan Detention Complex on five separate occasions in 2018 and then covering up the incidents. All received sentences of conditional discharges and will not serve time unless they re-offend within a certain time period.
A State Supreme Court jury on March 13 found all five defendants—Correction Officers Daphne Farmer, 49; Jennifer George, 33; Lisette Rodriguez, 52; and Alifa Waiters, 46; and a former DOC Captain, Leslie-Ann Absalom, 54—guilty of conspiracy in the sixth degree, the Office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said.
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