A federal corrections officer accused of holding hard-to-get feminine
hygiene products over inmates’ heads to sexually abuse seven women
took a plea deal Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Colin Akparanta, 43, pleaded guilty to abusing just one victim as
Manhattan federal prosecutors said they had evidence he stashed
feminine hygiene products in his lockers and also found a list of products
he was planning to give to the women he was abusing.
“During 2017 in the [Metropolitan Correctional Center] while I was working
as a correction officer, I sexually abused an inmate. I did so by touching
her Instruments,” Akparanta admitted. “I deprived that inmate of her right to
be free of that contact.”
Prosecutors alleged in a nine-count indictment back in May that Akparanta
smuggled contraband — including personal hygiene items, makeup and
food — into the jail as a means to coerce his victims into keeping quiet
and cooperating with the abuse.
Throughout the majority of Akparanta’s alleged abuse between 2012 and
2018, feminine hygiene products were difficult to acquire because inmates
were forced to purchase them from the commissary.
In August 2017, the Federal Bureau of Prisons changed that and made
tampons, pads and panty liners free for inmates

Prosecutors said in court Wednesday that all seven of Akparanta’s victims
were prepared to testify against him if the case went to trial — but they
accepted two guilty pleas on charges of abusive sexual contact and
deprivation of civil rights for assaulting an inmate, identified as “Victim 2,”
sometime around September or October 2017, court records show.
Akparanta, a New Jersey resident, is accused of abusing Victim 2 through
the slotted door of her cell while she was locked up in solitary
confinement, court records show.

The corrections officer touched the inmate’s breasts and digitally
penetrated her vagina as her body was pressed up against the cell’s door,
causing substantial pain, records show.
Akparanta also fondled her while escorting her to the shower and
requested she touch his penis over his pants, which she did, records state.
He faces a maximum of 12 years in jail and will be sentenced July 8.


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