FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - A corrections officer has admitted he engaged in sexual activities with an inmate at a county jail in central New Jersey.
Thomas Mauro, 42, of Beachwood, pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal sexual contact, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The agency will recommend that Mauro receive probation and a six-month jail term when he’s sentenced July 17.
Mauro was seen meeting up with the female inmate in a bathroom at the Monmouth County jail in Freehold Township in April 2019, prosecutors have said. They say the pair then engaged in sexual activity.
Investigators later learned Mauro and the 31-year-old Neptune City woman were involved in a relationship in 2013, when the woman wasn’t an inmate, but the relationship ended later that year.
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