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CHICAGO — The Cook County Sheriff’s office has suspended a high-ranking jail officer who kept up a secret relationship with a female inmate awaiting trial for the alleged murder of her 6-year-old daughter.
Lt. Christopher Young sent several “exceptionally graphic” letters to the inmate and deposited money in her jail commissary account, said Cara Smith, chief of policy and communications for the sheriff’s office.
Young, who has been with the department since 1998 and was promoted to lieutenant two years ago, was suspended without pay earlier this month, Smith said. The sheriff’s office will seek Young’s termination when he appears before the sheriff’s merit board in the near future, Smith said.
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