A corrections officer is being sued for the alleged rape of a pregnant woman and being criminally charged for sexual contact with a prisoner at the jail in Ferguson, Missouri.
On Nov. 14, sexual assault charges were filed against Jaris Hayden, 29, by a St. Louis woman who is only identified as J.W.
According to the complaint, on Oct. 9, 2013, J.W. was driving her car in Ferguson when she got pulled over for expired plates. During the stop, J.W. gave the police officer a false name and she was arrested. She was brought to the Ferguson jail for booking.
When she arrived at the jail, Hayden booked J.W. and she claims she heard him say, "You smell good" and "This will teach you a lesson." J.W. was then put into a cell. She says Hayden kept walking by her and talking to her in a "sexually provocative manner."
J.W. began having "pain and discharges" and told Hayden that she was several months pregnant. Hayden called for an ambulance, which eventually arrived with EMTs who checked J.W.'s vital signs, but Hayden never released J.W. to hospital custody.
At some point, J.W.'s boyfriend arrived and posted her $200 bond.
Hayden removed J.W. from the cell and said, "You're the type of girl that can get me in trouble."
J.W. told Hayden, "I will do anything to go home." The complaint notes that the comment was not intended to suggest that she would have sex with Hayden.
Hayden said, "Follow me," then led J.W. to a boiler room in the City of Ferguson Jail.
J.W. says that Hayden told her, "You gonna suck my dick" and motioned for J.W. to give him oral sex. Because she was afraid, J.W. began to perform oral sex on Hayden.
Hayden then took J.W. further into the boiler room and had vaginal intercourse with her, ejaculating into his hand.
After the alleged rape, Hayden took J.W. to the side door of the building and released her from jail custody. J.W. says that Hayden stated, "Tell anyone who asks that Wellston picked you up," then told her to run.
Immediately after she was released, J.W. went to a Subway restaurant across the street from the jail and obtained a bag "to hold the captured pubic hair."
Her sister picked her up and took her to the emergency room, and DNA analysis later confirmed that the pubic hair was Hayden's.
According to court documents, Hayden has been indicted and faces charges in St. Louis County for "acceding to corruption by a public servant," "sexual contact with a prisoner" and "permitting escape." He is also being sued for rape by J.W. in a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis
On Nov. 13, Hayden was arrested and released on $10,000 bond. His lawyer Scott Rosenblum told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his client has entered a plea of not guilty.
The City of Ferguson is also named in the civil suit. The complaint claims a pattern of violence and constitutional violations of citizens by the City of Ferguson law enforcement and makes mention of the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson.