Former Spokane Tribe jail deputy charged with sexual abuse
Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Clifford Arlen Matherly, a former jail deputy for the
Spokane Tribe of Washington, pleaded not guilty to a sexual abuse charge.
Federal prosecutors say Matherly, 35, assaulted a woman who was being held at the
Bureau of Indian Affairs jail on the reservation in May 2008.
He left his job there a couple of years ago, The Spokesman Review reported.
Matherly was a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit that was settled for $253,500, the paper said. A female inmate died in his care.
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Former deputy accused of raping inmate at Spokane Indian Reservation jail
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