Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Sexual assaults
Newport and Cocke County authorities are investigating recent alleged sexual assaults. A female Cocke County Jail inmate is charged with sexual assault in connection with a Friday incident. Corrections Officer Sgt. Zachary Magouick reported that inmate Connie Lynn Ramsey, 53, Country View Way, Newport, began hugging Officer Kail Prewitt. The woman was stopped but then "grabbed his butt and his groin area", before she entered her cell. Newport authorities have joined the Department of Children's Services in a probe of alleged sexual assaults of a minor. Social Worker Kayla Gillespie told Patrol Officer Mike Robey that the 13 year-old male victim told her his 32 year-old uncle had touched him sexually on 11 different occasions between February and April of last year. No arrest has been made.


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