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OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - A formerly incarcerated woman at the federal prison in Dublin on Thursday sued a correctional officer & the warden in the first civil lawsuit alleging sexual assault & battery in at least a quarter-century.
The plaintiff, identified as M.R. in Northern California U.S. District Court documents, alleged that she was sexually abused & then threatened by former Correctional Officer Ross Klinger, who has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a ward charges filed by the Department of Justice.
She claimed that he said he would kill her if she snitched to anyone that they were having sex.
"This case is against Officer Klinger, who sexually assaulted & abused my client while she was an inmate at FCI Dublin," M.R.'s attorney, Jessica Pride said. "He subjected her to cruel & unusual punishment. And being sexually abused was not part of her sentence."
Klinger is accused of having illegal sexual relations with at least 3 women at FCI Dublin in 2020.
KTVU interviewed 1 of them – Andrea Reyes – extensively earlier in March, who described a similar story to M.R's.: Klinger not only promised to marry both of them & then said he would harm them if they left him, but he also dug into their personal records to prey on their psychological frailties.
Klinger is out on bail living in Riverside County until he is sentenced.
Klinger is 1 of 5 correctional officers – including the former Warden Ray J. Garcia – who have been charged with having sex with incarcerated women.
The suit names Garcia as a defendant in the suit. Garcia's job was upholding, and training others in, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, federal law that prohibits the sexual abuse of prisoners.
Garcia has pleaded not guilty & has a trial schedule for next year.
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