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Deputy: Calif. inmates allowed to enjoy phone sex

Deputies allegedly allowed the perk because “it’s not illegal”

By R. Scott Moxley
OC Weekly

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Jail inmates--including killers, rapists, gangsters and pedophiles--regularly enjoy phone sex with civilians on public lines recorded by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) and deputies allow the perk because “it’s not illegal,” according to court testimony this week.

That unplanned revelation came courtesy of OCSD Investigator James Karr, who was questioned by defense attorney Lewis Rosenblum about use of jail phone recordings to arrest David Lloyd Cass in 2013 after the deputy allegedly accepted bribes in exchange for allowing a maximum-security inmate contact sex dates from 2009 to 2012.

To charge Cass with four felonies involving gift cards to places like Burke Williams Day Spa, Karr and prosecutor Aleta Bryant are relying on portions of more than 1,000 hours of phone recordings between inmate Stephenson Choi Kim and girlfriend Ha Duc Nguyen, who used her vagina to smuggle marijuana to the vicious killer and took cell phone recordings of him masturbating to porn she brought into the jail.

Full story: Orange County Jail Inmates Allowed To Enjoy Phone Sex, Deputy Testifies