Convicted Murderer Wins $65K After Prison Worker Treated Him Like 'Sex Slave'
It isn't everyday that you see the system grant a murderer with anything.
How this guy ended up getting paid to have sex in prison is beyond me.
This bizarre case ended up with a convicted murderer winning $65,000 after being treated like a sex slave by an employee of the prison.
William Cordoba won the judgment last week after a six-day trial in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif. The 57-year-old Cordoba sued janitorial vocational instructor Silvia Pulido in 2012 using handwritten paperwork filled with page after page of his cursive penmanship.
“She told me that it was my penmanship that had caught her attention,” he said in one of the filings detailing the abuse and reviewed by the Daily News.
Cordoba described how Pulido hired him as a clerk in her office trailer in May 2010 and quickly started coming on to him, saying things like, “Get closer, I don’t bite.”
“She became flirtatious, told me that she had read my (file), that she made enough money to hire a lawyer to get me out of prison and that all I had to do was listen to her, do what she said and keep things to myself,” Cordoba said in a 2014 filing in the case.
“A couple days passed, then around noon, I was at my desk working on the computer and Ms. Pulido stood behind me, leaned over my shoulder and put her hand over my hand as I was using the mouse to click entries on the computer and said, ‘Here, let me help you do this faster.’ That was the first time that Ms. Pulido and I had sex,” he wrote.
He said three days after their first encounter, she changed the locks on her office and assured him no custody staff would walk in on them when he was performing sexual favors for her.
Cordoba said he eventually came to believe Pulido was “lying” to him and was involved with another inmate, so he tried to back away and told her that he wanted to discuss their relationship with his psychiatrist.
He said that’s when Pulido fired him and told a prison official he had been “stalking her.”
Cordoba was then placed in solitary confinement, he said.
Pulido testified in her own defense at trial and denied any sexual relationship ever took place. Cordoba also testified, as did several other witnesses.
The jury ultimately sided with Cordoba and awarded him $15,414 for “harm” resulting from Pulido’s actions and $50,000 in punitive damages. -(Nancy Dillon, NY Daily News)