Ex-Jail Guard Convicted of sex (Will County)

EX-JAIL GUARD CONVICTED
JOLIET MAN HAD SEX WITH FEMALE INMATES  
Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1999
By Stanley Ziemba, Tribune Staff Writer.  

   A Will County jury Monday found a former Will County Jail guard guilty of
four of five counts of having had sexual relations with female inmates while
on duty at the facility in late 1997.

   After a three-day trial, the jury of eight men and four women determined
that Dwain T. Givens, 62, of Joliet, who had been charged with five counts of
custodial sexual misconduct, had failed to prove his innocence in all but one
of the charges against him.

   As a result of the conviction, he could be sentenced to up to 5 years in
the state penitentiary. The jury reached the verdict after nearly four hours
of deliberation.

   Givens' attorney, Ed Burmila of Joliet, is scheduled to argue in court
Tuesday before Will County Circuit Judge Gerald Kinney for a mistrial on
grounds that prosecutors referred to additional alleged incidents of sexual
relations with other women involving Givens.

   Givens was indicted last year on the charges of custodial sexual misconduct
by a Will County grand jury after two women prisoners accused him of having
had sex with them while he was on duty in the jail in November and December
1997.

   Givens had served as a correctional officer in the county jail from 1995
until last May when he was fired by the Will County Sheriff's Merit Commission
as a result of the charges filed against him.



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