Female Guard Gets Probation for Jail Sex - Updated

(Milwaukee, WI) Jail guard and married mother-of-four Cindy Bartoshevich, 31, was sentenced to probation yesterday for the repeated horn-clipping of a 21-year-old gangbanger accused of racketeering and drug charges.

Everyone in the courtroom was stymied.

"Why this guy?" Assistant District Attorney Douglas Simpson asked.

"She fell in love - lust - with a prisoner," ventured defense attorney Bridget E. Boyle.

"At no point did I ever imagine it would come to this," Bartoshevich said, plucking a tissue from the box beside her.

Well, boo-hoo! I've no sympathy for a mother-of-four children displaying total irresponsibility. In conjunction with six months of jailhouse fluid swaps with inmate Michael Carroll, Bartoshevich also engaged in and paid for 5,600 minutes ($1,200) of phone calls with him.

After pleading no contest to misconduct in office, Bartoshevich was sentenced by Milwaukee Circuit Judge Dennis P. Moroney to three years probation, $1,000 fine plus court costs and 100 hours community service. Michael Carroll, on the other hand, pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering charge and awaits sentencing. (H/T Lloyd D.)


[11/09/07 entry]

(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) A 31-year-old guard at the Milwaukee County Jail, Cindy A. Bartoshevich, faces termination of employment for allegedly engaging in hot slammer sex with an inmate.

According to papers filed today, Bartoshevich's jailhouse lover is a confessed murderer and Latin King gang member, Michael Carroll, 21.

Bartoshevich acknowledged "inappropriate contact" but denied "any sexual interaction," the file says, but it adds that letters from her to Carroll corroborate his version.

What she told investigators, according to the filing: the inmate tried to kiss her, tripped her, grabbed her and put his hand down her pants, but she didn't tell any other guards or supervisors.

Also in the filing seeking Bartoshevich's termination: she confessed that she used a fake name ("Penny Berlin") to mail him letters, received them at a post office box, and sent him $100 in money orders and cashier's checks.

The actual amount is $700, the termination papers say.

No timeframe is specified for the alleged guard-inmate sexual encounter, except that it began after Carroll was brought into jail on a 2005 murder charge. According to the complaint from the murder case in which he pleaded guilty, Carroll confessed to being the wheelman in a drive-by shooting that used a gun from "the almighty Latin King nation."

Bartoshevich was arrested and released. Carroll awaits prosecution on a butt-load of charges.

Tip: Lloyd D.