By: Associated Press//April 29, 2015//
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A former Polk County jailer is due in court Friday on charges of sexually assaulting at least five female inmates.
Forty-eight-year-old Darryl Christensen, of Amery, is facing five felony counts of second-degree sexual assault by a corrections officer. Prosecutors say the jailer had sex with the women while they were incarcerated at the Polk County Jail between 2011 and 2014.
A criminal complaint says the jailer would take the inmates to a secluded area where there were no video cameras.
Christensen resigned in October 2014. KARE-TV says he had been a jailer in Polk County since 1995. Defense attorney Aaron Nelson says a defendant has the presumption of innocence under the law.