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\"\"A federal judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, sentenced Eric Scott Kindley, 53, a former private prisoner transport officer, to life plus five years in prison for sexually assaulting two different women in his custody during two different transports in 2014 and 2017,<\/span><\/p>\n

He was also convicted of possessing a firearm during the 2017 sexual assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief U.S. District Judge D. P. Marshall Jr. sentenced Kindley to life in prison plus five years. He also ordered that the defendant pay a total of $20,275 in restitution to the two victims for mental health treatment and counseling for trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The sentence comes after a jury returned guilty verdicts on March 12, 2020, to all counts in the indictment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The evidence at trial established that Kindley operated his own private prisoner transport company that contracted with local jails throughout the country to transport individuals who were arrested on out-of-state warrants. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even though the indictment charged Kindley with only two sexual assaults. The jury, however, heard from six women who he transported between 2012 and 2017. All the women testified that Kindley transported them alone, sometimes for hundreds of miles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"brownThe women were all handcuffed and shackled. As Kindley drove the women to desolate locations, he threatened to kill them and made sexually explicit comments that escalated in intensity and depravity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose who act under color of law and commit sexual assault cannot rely on their position of power or their victims\u2019 vulnerabilities to escape accountability,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cWhile these crimes may be difficult to detect, a survivor\u2019s account is evidence, will be taken seriously, an investigation will ensue, and, where appropriate, punishment will follow. We thank the survivors of these sexual assaults for having the courage to come forward despite the defendant\u2019s repeated attempts to silence them. The Civil Rights Division will continue to vigorously hold accountable those who abuse their authority by committing sexual assault.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the women listed in the indictment testified that when Kindley transported her from Alabama to Arizona in 2017, he stopped his van in a deserted area near Little Rock purportedly to allow her to urinate. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"womanThere, he sexually assaulted her while she was handcuffed, threatened her with a firearm, and reminded her, as he did with other victims, that she was \u201can inmate in transport\u201d and that no one would believe her if she reported what happened. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another woman listed in the indictment testified that when Kindley transported her in 2014, he stopped his van in a deserted area, also in Arkansas, under the guise of having gotten lost. There, he violently forced her to perform a sex act on him. <\/span><\/p>\n

A third woman testified that during her transport in 2013 from Florida to Texas, Kindley pulled his van over to the side of a dark road, both purportedly to let her urinate and under the guise of having gotten lost. <\/span><\/p>\n

There Kindley sexually assaulted her. <\/span><\/p>\n

A fourth woman testified that during her 2012 transport, from Nevada to California, Kindley stopped his van in a deserted hiking area. There, he forced her to perform a sex act on him in a park bathroom. <\/span><\/p>\n

A fifth woman testified that during her transport in 2013, from California to Montana, Kindley attempted to sexually assault her after he pulled over to the side of the road during a snowstorm. None of the women knew each other, and it was only during the trial that they learned the others existed.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to court documents, the federal investigation into Kindley\u2019s conduct began in January 2017, when two women, housed together in a small jail in Arizona, reported that Kindley sexually assaulted them during two separate transports. <\/span><\/p>\n

The years-long investigation thereafter uncovered 16 women whom the defendant subjected to some form of sexual misconduct during transport, often culminating in forceful sexual assault. <\/span><\/p>\n

During the sentencing hearing, the United States submitted victim impact statements from 11 women who Kindley transported, and two former domestic partners. <\/span><\/p>\n

The women described the corrosive impact of a person with power shattering their trust in law enforcement with vile words and acts. <\/span><\/p>\n

As one woman summed up, \u201cI\u2019m wary of government officials because of what Eric Kindley had said and [did] during my transport \u2026The offender in this case used his so called \u2018position of power\u2019 to cause [me] to endure undue stress, grief, and loss of self-worth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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